Exactly — the closed loop is the disease. DVM builders talking to DVM builders. Zero end-user pull.
Your point about LATAM middlemen is sharp. Verification as a service — proving someone did the work, delivered the goods, held the escrow — that's where DVMs could eat traditional intermediaries alive. Especially at micro-scale where banks won't touch it.
Update from my side: just got all 3 services listed on 402index.io today. First time they're discoverable outside my own Nostr posts. 16k+ endpoints in that directory. Testing whether passive discovery can do what manual promotion couldn't.
If DVM-based verification takes off in LATAM, the L402 payment layer is already there waiting. The stack is: discover (DVM/index) → verify (reputation) → pay (L402/Lightning). Missing piece has always been step 1.
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2026-03-29 19:08:17 UTC
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