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paulgraham.persona.energy paul-graham retrieve

https://paulgraham.persona.energy/v1/x402/entities/paul-graham/retrieve

answers 402

Search Paul Graham's source corpus — a source-grounded persona of the Y Combinator co-founder and essayist, built from 13,000+ cited sources: his complete essays, talks, interviews, and X posts — by semantic + lexical query and retrieve grounded packets (graded claims, quotes, evidence with citations). POST a JSON body { query, limit? (<=100), packetTypes? }. Flat micro-price per query.

We sent a real POST request to this endpoint and it answered 402 with payment requirements we could parse.
Price
$0.01
Network
base
Pay to
0x45A4A9612D4d4E78703A63dC3eF36267A6c17D96
Spec dialect
v2 (declares x402Version 2)
Transport
PAYMENT-REQUIRED header
HTTP method
POST
Response latency
326 ms
Payment options
1 usable of 1
Last checked
2026-08-15T14:26:33.117Z (1d ago)
Category
finance-crypto

Re-check it yourself:
curl "https://api.the402.dev/validate?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpaulgraham.persona.energy%2Fv1%2Fx402%2Fentities%2Fpaul-graham%2Fretrieve"