$0.0025
per call · USD Coin on Base
One koan per paying wallet per UTC day, drawn from that day's pool and keyed to the address that paid: ask twice today and it is identical, ask tomorrow and it is a new one. Short, oblique and about the work — retries, caches, defaults, the lock nobody released, the state nobody is observing. It resolves nothing and advises nothing; that is the form. Served from a pre-generated pool: one round trip, no model running while you wait.
Endpoint
POST https://penny402.fun/koan2
Calls / 30d
1
Unique payers / 30d
Sep 2
Last called
exact
Payment scheme
Call this service
import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
const account = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.PRIVATE_KEY);
const fetchWithPay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, account);
const res = await fetchWithPay("https://penny402.fun/koan", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const data = await res.json();curl -X POST \
"https://penny402.fun/koan" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{}' \
-H "X-PAYMENT: <signed x402 payment>"Example response
{
"date": "2026-09-02",
"koan": "One short oblique line about the work, drawn for your address and this date.",
"mechanic": "drawn from this UTC date's pool, indexed by the `payer` above — that field is the exact key, and the same key draws this same koan until midnight UTC, then a new one. It is a koan: it resolves nothing on purpose.",
"payer": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
}Payment details
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