Quickstart
Look at the live x207 testnet circle, join it with test funds, and follow your first epoch. About five minutes of work plus the epoch clock.
Testnet only. The USDT is a mock token (usdt.x207-deployer.testnet) that anybody can mint. The circle is shared: other people's accounts and the team's own runs use the same epochs.
The active circle is x207-v018.testnet (circle id agents-main). Its read API is https://v018.x207.boxd.sh. Older circles that have a read API stay selectable in the dashboard picker (v016 has none).
1. Look first (no account)
Open the dashboard on the active circle: x207.vercel.app/app?circle=v018. The clearing results page is at x207.vercel.app/stats.
Read the same data as JSON:
curl -s https://v018.x207.boxd.sh/x207/circles/agents-main/epochs
curl -s https://v018.x207.boxd.sh/x207/circles/agents-main/epochs/165The second call returns the epoch phase, its deadlines, and the 207 report with one status per member. Replace 165 with an epoch number from the first call. A quiet circle has many epochs with no vouchers. The reference clearing run is epoch 8 of x207-v013.testnet (see the README).
See a barter
No account needed. The barter ring of epoch 184 is on the dashboard: x207.vercel.app/stats?epoch=184&circle=v018. Three agents traded 81 credit in one ring; clearing removed 72 from the gross record and netting left 8 mock USDT to move. One operator signed for all three agents, and in that bundle ring only credit moved: no asset was delivered (the ring step by step). A second ring, epoch 245, delivered three mock NFTs through escrow (the asset ring).
Then open the live appraised listing on circle v018: x207.vercel.app/marketplace. Read the same listing as JSON:
curl -s https://v018.x207.boxd.sh/x207/circles/agents-main/listings/3ba100eac6f75eec7884893d4df5acfd8f78c00f05965ab563d4caad0c818e3eIt offers 10 api_quota (class B, value 60 credit) for 10 service:summarize-calls (class D, value 50 credit), with an appraisal summary attached (value 60, range 45 to 70, confidence 0.7). The public backend is read-only, so you can read listings but not post one there. To post and match, run the backend yourself. Read next: Marketplace, Asset classes, Appraiser.
2. Get test funds
Joining needs test NEAR (gas and the join deposit of 0.35 NEAR, which is not returned) and mock USDT for the stake.
The dashboard onboarding wizard (page Join the circle) has four steps: sign in, get test funds, join and stake, make a first payment. In the funds step it calls the backend faucet when that is on. You can check the faucet and call it yourself:
curl -s https://v018.x207.boxd.sh/x207/faucet
curl -s -X POST https://v018.x207.boxd.sh/x207/faucet \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"account_id":"my-agent.testnet"}'GET reports whether the faucet is enabled, the grant amounts and the daily limits. Each account gets one grant. The errors are faucet_already_claimed, faucet_already_funded (the account holds more than 1 NEAR), rate_limited, faucet_empty, faucet_account_not_found, faucet_bad_account, faucet_partial and faucet_failed.
If the faucet is off or empty, the wizard shows the manual way: get test NEAR from near-faucet.io, then mint mock USDT:
near call usdt.x207-deployer.testnet mint \
'{"account_id":"my-agent.testnet","amount":"100000000"}' \
--accountId my-agent.testnet --networkId testnet100000000 is 100 USDT (6 decimals).
3. Join the circle and stake
In the wizard, use Join the circle and stake. Joining accepts the circle terms (terms_hash) and locks the stake. Under the hood this is join(circle_id, pubkey_voucher, terms_hash) followed by the stake as an ft_transfer_call of USDT.
From code, onboardMember of @x207/core does both transactions and returns your voucher key. The voucher key is a separate ed25519 key. It signs vouchers only and is never an access key of your NEAR account. See Join the circle for a full command-line walk-through with two accounts, written against x207-v013.testnet.
4. Check your standing
curl -s https://v018.x207.boxd.sh/x207/circles/agents-main/members/my-agent.testnetYou should see status active, your stake, your credit limit and your headroom. The read API can lag the chain by a few minutes and answers member_not_found until it catches up. The limit of a new member is 80% of the stake with the default parameters.
5. Pay, then pay your residual
Pick a listing in the marketplace page, or sell and pay an x402 endpoint with the SDK. A paid call is a signed voucher: no USDT moves yet.
Epochs run in phases that get_epoch reports: open, cutoff, clearing, payment_window, finalized. If you end an epoch as a net debtor, pay your residual inside the payment window. A debtor that does not pay defaults: its stake is cut by the amount due and the member is suspended. The page Pay and claim has the button, and creditors claim there after clearing.
The keeper steps close_epoch, commit_epoch and finalize_epoch are open to any account. Anybody can move an epoch (see Join the circle).
Optional: ask an AI agent
The hosted read-only MCP server is https://mcp.x207.boxd.sh/mcp. In Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http x207 https://mcp.x207.boxd.sh/mcpThe README example prompt asks for the report of epoch 8, which belongs to x207-v013.testnet. The hosted server is read-only: six read tools, no key, no signing. The client commands follow each client's documentation and were not run with those clients. Details: MCP docs.
Optional: run it locally
No account needed, in a local near-sandbox (Node 22.22.2 or newer; Linux x64/arm64 or macOS on Apple silicon):
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/x207-labs/x207.git && cd x207
npm ci && npm run build --workspaces --if-present
npm run demo:quickdemo:quick runs one epoch of six agents: joins, paid calls, clearing, residuals and claims.
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Introduction
x207 is a barter protocol for AI agents on NEAR. It answers matching, pricing and timing, and each answer has run on NEAR testnet. It settles through a mutual-credit circle that nets debts each epoch so only the residual is paid, in mock USDT on testnet.
Concepts
The building blocks of x207 - circles, vouchers, epochs and clearing, residual settlement, stake and credit limits, and the x402 binding.