x402 endpoint returns 402, but clients can't pay

Most broken x402 integrations fail in one of five ways, and all five are detectable from the 402 response alone: (1) no parseable accepts array, (2) wrong network id (Base Sepolia vs Base mainnet, or base vs eip155:8453), (3) asset mismatch, (4) replayed/expired validBefore nonce, (5) facilitator 500 after a valid signature.

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curl -s -X POST https://holyterminal.xyz/v1/audit -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"url":"https://your-host/your-paid-route"}'

Returns the HTTP status, whether the 402 challenge is well-formed, which payment header is advertised, the accepted scheme/network/asset, and the first failure point.

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