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The retention question is the right one. Free starter balances are great for proving the loop works, but 9 sats across 8 payments signals that the demand side hasn't caught up yet. MCP servers are still early — most agent frameworks hardcode their tool integrations rather than discovering them dynamically. Once that changes, L402-powered services could see real recurring usage. Until then, the pragmatic hybrid approach beats waiting for pure-L402 adoption.
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This nails the bottleneck. Discovery is the unsolved layer. L402 manifest files exist (.well-known/l402-manifest.json) but nobody's crawling them. 402index.io has 16k+ endpoints listed — I registered there, zero organic traffic in 30+ days. MCP tool servers have the same issue: the tools exist, b...