# wzyp.cn's ranking jumped 3x, but it's really Ldxp (链动小铺) moving to a new domain: the cashier for China's AI top-up trade · web

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> The rank rise is traffic moving from ldxp.cn to wzyp.cn; the total hasn't grown. The platform itself lets anyone open a shop at zero cost, doesn't touch money, and offers one-click resale of supply, so it has captured this year's newly emerged gray market in reselling AI subscription top-ups in China.

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# wzyp.cn's ranking jumped 3x, but it's really Ldxp (链动小铺) moving to a new domain: the cashier for China's AI top-up trade

**What it is** The new storefront domain for Ldxp (链动小铺): a Chinese card-consignment platform where anyone can open a shop for free with real-name verification, taking a 3%–4% cut per sale, with money going straight into the shop owner's own account, mainly selling top-ups and accounts for GPT, Claude, and Gemini.

**Why it took off** The ranking rise is traffic moving from ldxp.cn to wzyp.cn; total volume hasn't grown. The platform itself, with free shop opening, no handling of money, and one-click distribution of supply, captured the new grey-market trade in domestic AI subscription top-ups that emerged this year.

**D** **How you could approach it** Don't build another card platform to compete with it. Copy its structure (don't touch money, only handle delivery, distribute supply) and apply it to compliant digital goods, or copy the shop owners' customer acquisition: write out top-up search terms in GitHub repos and tutorial pages, with the homepage pointing to the order page.

Grade D: the climb is a domain change, not new growth. The platform's position is built on a grey category and the supply-network effect of 40k merchants, and a fee war has already pushed rates to 1.8%. Within a year it has had a crackdown, shop clearouts, and a data leak back to back, so it's not worth newcomers chasing. Being talked about in small circles

Global rank 223k · 90 days ago, top 1M+

Over one month, wzyp.cn's global ranking climbed from ~570k to ~220k, so it looks like a new site that just came up. It isn't. It's the new storefront domain that Ldxp (链动小铺, ldxp.cn), a card-consignment platform, started giving buyers in September: every gain on wzyp.cn is matched by a loss on ldxp.cn. What's really worth a look is the business behind it: for 2026 years, shops reselling ChatGPT Plus/Pro, Claude, and Gemini subscriptions in China have mostly been run out of this platform. Here's what it is, why people selling AI subscriptions open shops there, how the shop owners get customers, and whether it's still worth chasing.

### A shop owner who lost 500 agents

On Aug 11, 2026, an X account called "Crypto带土" (@daitu0822) posted: "GPT Plus top-up, no-threshold agent price 120 yuan 118 yuan 116 yuan! As long as you connect to my product, the starting purchase price is 120 yuan!" Right after: "The earlier Ldxp shop was completely shut down, what a pity, I lost 500+ agents. Just a week after starting, I hit the biggest setback so far! Remember to withdraw your deposit in 15 days, bros." Commenters asked "Was the previous one banned?" and "Why not build your own card site?"

This post brings out the key elements of the business: it sells GPT top-ups; one shop owner recruited more than 500 "agents" to distribute for him within a week; the shop was hosted on Ldxp; and the platform can suddenly shut down this kind of shop.

Four days later, on Aug 15, @gm365, a Chinese AI-circle X blogger, published research: he scraped 13k messages from a Telegram group selling GPT accounts, identified 29 Ldxp shops from the posters' profiles, and found they had made 377k sales in total. The top shop had been open 97 days and sold 138k orders, averaging 1,424 orders a day, based in Dongguan; the oldest had only been open 158 days. His words: "a typical emerging industry." Another 5 shops showed Baoji, selling nearly identical things: "Running shop networks this early."

### What it is

Ldxp (链动小铺) is a Chinese consignment-plus-auto-delivery platform, colloquially called a "card-issuing site" (发卡网). Anyone can open a shop after real-name verification, selling card codes, activation keys, accounts, tutorials, and resources; once the buyer pays, the system sends the card code automatically. The platform takes 3%–4% per sale (from Ldxp shop-opening tutorials on X; a Sohu sponsored article says "only a 4% service fee is charged"), plus a small deposit. Its official YouTube slogan is "funds cleared directly … the platform does not participate in settlement": money goes straight to the payment interface the shop owner applied for, and the platform never touches it.

Web only, no app. Buyers get a shop link (wzyp.cn/shop/<shop code>) and order directly from it; opening ldxp.cn now redirects straight to wzyp.cn (11-06 tested).

The main product is AI subscriptions. According to @gm365's August tally, direct GPT Plus top-ups sell for ¥115–135, Pro 5x for ¥590–680, and Pro 20x for ¥1,050–1,258. There are also finished accounts and card codes for Claude Code, Gemini, and Grok.

Scale only comes from third-party figures: the open-source project wzyp-view scraped the whole site once in September and found 250 shops and 11,042 listed products; an October data-leak post said it "affected 40k+ merchants," but that's cumulative registrations, not active shops. Nobody has disclosed how much money the platform has collected.

### Why the ranking rose: the same people moved to a new door

| Date | wzyp.cn global ranking | ldxp.cn global ranking |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 6 | Not in the top 1M | 63,220 |
| Sep 10 | Not in the top 1M | 58,859 (at its peak) |
| Oct 1 | 652,864 | 63,783 |
| Oct 15 | 443,512 | 78,723 |
| Oct 29 | 271,542 | 139,420 |
| Nov 5 | 222,547 | 219,259 |

Data comes from Tranco's global website ranking (30-day rolling average, so it shows the domain move one or two months late). Chrome real-user data has the same shape: ldxp.cn sat in the global top 5k from 50 through August, then fell to the top 1M tier in September; wzyp.cn newly entered the top 100k in September.

Taken together, the two domains show total platform traffic roughly flat, even slightly down: in August one domain ranked around 60k, and now the two each rank around 220k.

Here's the timeline of why shops moved domains:

- **Mid-July** : A post on NodeSeek asked whether Lianhdong Xiaopu was down. Apart from the main site, every shop and product link was dead. One commenter wrote: "A .cn domain hosting nothing but overseas AI products, it's a wonder it wasn't cleaned up sooner."

- **Aug 11** : The opening incident happened, and the AI top-up shops were shut down.

- **September** : wzyp.cn started getting real traffic. By Sep 14, people were posting wzyp.cn/shop/ links directly on X.

- **Oct 12** : Posts appeared on V2EX and NodeLoc saying Lianhdong Xiaopu had been hacked, and merchants' real names and Alipay details had apparently leaked. Afterwards, some merchants said the platform now "only supports WeChat Pay."

The platform never explained the domain change. The most likely explanation is that it separated the storefront links buyers use from the main ldxp.cn brand, to reduce the risk of being cleaned up or blocked. This is an inference: wzyp.cn had web archive snapshots from 2004, so it's an old domain, most likely bought.

There's another factor. In Chrome's real-user data, its top countries are Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the US. That data excludes mainland China, and mainland users on proxies are counted under the proxy's exit country. So most of this "overseas traffic" is probably mainland buyers behind a VPN.

### Why sellers of AI subscriptions open shops there

The AI subscription price-comparison site OpenPrice lists 401 resellers, each tagged with the card-issuing system it runs on. 11-06 counted: about 294 on 链动小铺, 16688 on 卡网 43, 39 on 独角数卡, and 23 on 二次元发卡. 链动小铺 alone accounts for over 70%.

There are four reasons:

1. **The demand is new** . In 2026, demand for high-priced subscriptions like Codex, ChatGPT Pro, and Claude Code surged. Chinese users couldn't easily get overseas cards, so an industry of top-up services and account resale with thousands of orders a day emerged. These sellers needed a zero-barrier checkout that auto-delivers and accepts RMB.

2. **Zero cost to open a shop** . No servers, no domain, no code. After real-name verification you pay 3%–4% in fees and you can sell. Compare that with the open-source Dujiao-Ka, where you rent servers, buy a domain, and find a payment gateway yourself.

3. **The platform doesn't touch the money** . Payments go straight into the shop owner's own account, so neither side has to worry about the platform running off. Gray-market goods depend on this most.

4. **Supply can be resold** . The platform has a "supply plaza": suppliers list goods, and anyone can connect with one click and sell them in their own shop. The opening seller signed up over 500 agents in one week this way. The platform with the widest selection attracts agents, and once agents arrive, suppliers come too. The network effect is on the supply side, not the buyer side.

As more shops joined, price comparison sites, Telegram groups, and GitHub repos all defaulted to Lianhdong links, so buyers came to trust this checkout.

### Where buyers come from: the platform doesn't recruit, shop owners do

The platform itself does almost no promotion. All traffic is brought in by shop owners. The visible channels:

- **GitHub repos as landing pages** . The clearest example is luoyangdekai/chatgpt-plus-pro-Recharge-China: created in Oct 14, now 254 stars. Its description reads "2026 November, the simplest top-up guide online | ChatGPT/Codex recharge and proxy top-up guide | Plus 135, Pro100 650, Pro 200 1140 yuan," followed by a long string of keywords like "GPT top-up, Codex top-up, ChatGPT recharge," and the project homepage points straight to wzyp.cn/shop/3F5YOW2H. An earlier repo for the same shop code (jijizidekai/…, 449 stars) was 404, so the owner recreated it under another account. There are a dozen similar top-up repos, some with over a thousand stars.

- **Telegram groups** . The data for @gm365 comes from a group posting over 6,000 quotes a day. The owner puts the shop link in their bio.

- **Forums and X** . People often post wzyp.cn/shop/ links directly on NodeSeek, NodeLoc, V2EX, and linux.do. Some also stuff shop links into spam issues on open-source project mailing lists.

- **Price comparison sites** . Sites like OpenPrice, BoAIle, and Pujie sort the Lianhdong shops by price, and one click on "buy now" takes you there.

- **Bilibili and YouTube tutorials** . Videos titled something like "Stop paying full price for ChatGPT" send viewers to top-up shops.

- **Agents and shop networks** . A single supplier can have hundreds of agent storefronts selling at once. Shop owners have also written their own Edge extensions and Tampermonkey scripts to batch-filter and connect to supply.

### Who it's competing with

| Competitors | Form | How it differs from Lianhdong Xiaopu |
|---|---|---|
| 16688 Kawang / Jingfaka | Long-established consignment platform that also sells card-system source code | Corporate-feeling; far smaller share among AI sellers than Lianhdong |
| Dujiao-Ka / Dujiao-Next | Open source, self-hosted | You provide the server, domain, and payment gateway. High barrier, but you control whether it gets blocked or leaks |
| Anime card systems, Yicijiayuan card systems | Open source / platform | Same as above, more niche |
| A platform with 1.8% fees (name not confirmed) | Consignment platform | According to shop owners on X, the deposit is 30 yuan and the fees are nearly half of Lianhdong's. Since August it has been taking in merchants leaving Lianhdong |
| Xianyu, Taobao | big tech | AI top-ups get delisted, with no auto-delivery and no agent resale |
| Self-built top-up sites (getgpt.pro, payforchat.com, etc.) | Single-brand websites | Direct sales by the owner, not a platform |

Not many people know about it: it circulates in Chinese AI circles and a few tech forums, and some people have built scraping tools and browser extensions for it. No mainstream media has covered it. But nearly every shop owner in this industry knows it.

### If it were you

**D: Worth knowing about, but I wouldn't follow it.** wzyp.cn's "climb" comes from a domain change, not new growth. Lianhdong Xiaopu's position was built on a gray-market category, supply-side network effects, and 40k merchants, and a new platform will find it hard to pull suppliers away from it. In the past year it has already gone through a crackdown, shop shutdowns, a domain change, and a data leak. The risks of this path are out in the open.

**Who it suits** : shop owners already selling overseas subscriptions or digital services who want to learn its traffic methods, and developers building price comparison or tools to serve these shop owners.

**Who it doesn't suit** : anyone planning another card platform to compete head-on (the fee war is already on, with rates as low as 1.8%); anyone unwilling to touch gray-market categories or take on the risk of shutdowns and liability; anyone without payment and compliance resources in China.

**How to do it** : don't copy the platform, copy two things. First, the structure: "the platform doesn't touch money, charges a service fee to handle delivery, and supply can be resold with one click." This can move to compliant but similarly fragmented digital goods, like licensed software resale, group buying and proxy payment for overseas SaaS, or game cards. Second, the shop owners' traffic methods: a GitHub repo or tutorial page that covers search terms like "how to top up XX," points the homepage to your order page, and gets listed on Telegram bios, forum signatures, and price comparison sites.

**How to get users** : if you build a platform, recruit suppliers before buyers. Find people who have stock and agents, and give them lower fees and stable shop links. They'll bring their buyers with them. If you build tools, the target is the shop owners themselves: supply price comparison, batch connection, and shop analytics dashboards, promoted in the Telegram groups and forums they already use.

**When to move** : there's no clear window. This business's lifespan depends on when OpenAI or Anthropic open payments in China or enforce top-up bans more strictly, and when the platform is next cleaned up.

**Signs you've got it wrong** : (1) the October Chrome real-user data released in mid-to-late November shows wzyp.cn and ldxp.cn rising noticeably together, meaning the leak didn't hurt it and the platform is still growing, so its model deserves a second look; (2) the 1.8% fee platform or another rival climbs past 30% of channels on OpenPrice within a few months, meaning suppliers aren't loyal and a new platform has a chance; (3) conversely, if wzyp.cn starts failing to load across the board and shop owners collectively move away, it means platform businesses in this category don't last, and there's no point studying it further.

[Website ↗](https://wzyp.cn)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16688 Kawang / Jingfaka (Jingruan) | Web | Long established (legacy brand) | 43 of OpenPrice's 401 channel sellers | Corporate, also sells card-system source code; far smaller share among AI subscription sellers than Lianhdong Xiaopu |
| Dujiao-Ka / Dujiao-Next | Open source | Dujiaoka, years ago; 2026-02 no longer updated, succeeded by Dujiao-Next | 39 channel sellers on OpenPrice | You provide the server, domain, and payment gateway. High barrier, but you keep control of the risk |
| Anime card systems / Yicijiayuan card systems | Open source | Not verified | 23 on OpenPrice | Niche self-hosted option |
| The 1.8% card-issuing platform mentioned by @daitu0822 | Web | 2026-08 ago | Not verified | Roughly half the fees, a 30 yuan deposit, and it specifically recruits Lianhdong agents |
| Goofish / Taobao | Big-company features | Years ago | goofish.com ranks about 18k on Tranco | AI top-up gets delisted; no auto card delivery or reseller distribution |
| Self-built top-up sites (payforchat.com, getgpt.pro, etc.) | Web | 2025–2026 | getgpt.pro ranks about 330k on Tranco | Single-brand direct sales, not a platform |

Where users come from

- **Confirmed** **GitHub repo SEO (top-up guides + homepage pointing to a shop)** : the homepage of jijizidekai/…Recharge-China (449 stars, now 404) and its successor luoyangdekai/… (new at 2026-10-14, 254 stars) both point to wzyp.cn/shop/3F5YOW2H; a dozen-plus similar top-up repos exist

- **Confirmed** **Telegram group** : @gm365 identified 13 Lianyong shops from 29k messages in a GPT-account Telegram group

- **Confirmed** **Forums and X posting shop links** : NodeSeek post-850933, post-1013260, and X @alin_zone 2026-09-14 posting wzyp.cn/shop/* directly

- **Confirmed** **Price-comparison aggregators** : OpenPrice's channel table lists 294/401 as a Lianyong shop; BoAIle's price pages jump straight to Lianyong shops

- **Confirmed** **Reseller distribution / shop farms** : @daitu0822 has 500 agents under one shop; 5 Baoji shops sell the same goods; sellers built Edge extensions and Greasyfork scripts to connect suppliers

- **Confirmed** **Legacy users migrated (domain change)** : ldxp.cn's Tranco rank and CrUX tier drop by the same amount that wzyp.cn rises; visiting ldxp.cn redirects to wzyp.cn

- Inferred **Bilibili / YouTube tutorials** : videos like 'stop paying full price for ChatGPT' exist, but no single video has notable view counts

## Why wzyp.cn shows up

### Bottom line

wzyp.cn isn't a new product. It's the new buyer-facing domain that **Lianyong Xiaopu** (ldxp.cn, a card-delivery/consignment platform) started using in September 2026. Its Tranco climb is essentially **traffic moved over from ldxp.cn** : whatever wzyp.cn gains, ldxp.cn loses. The real story is the platform itself: over 2026 years, most shops reselling GPT Plus/Pro, Claude, Gemini and Grok subscriptions (a gray market) in China have run on it. Of the 401 channel sellers indexed by the AI-subscription price comparison site OpenPrice, 294 (about 73%) are on Lianyong Xiaopu. It works because of three things: zero cost to open a shop, payments settle directly into the seller's own account (direct settlement), and you can plug into other people's inventory to resell (a supply marketplace). Sellers bring in their own buyers from GitHub, Telegram, X, Bilibili and forums; the platform itself barely acquires users.

### 1. What it is

- The homepage title is 'Lianyong Xiaopu - consignment platform, delivery platform, automatic delivery site… Lianyong Xiaopu consignment (ldxp.cn)', and visiting ldxp.cn redirects to wzyp.cn (Jina read the homepage, 2026-11-07). The whole site sits behind Alibaba Cloud ESA WAF, requiring a slider verification, so product pages couldn't be scraped.

- Model: anyone who completes real-name verification can open a shop and sell card codes, activation codes, accounts, articles and resources. The platform takes a 3%–4% service fee per sale, plus a small deposit (X @xiaoyuboi's shop-opening guide; a sponsored article says 'only 4% service fee'). The official YouTube channel's slogan is 'direct settlement… independent payment API, funds are safe, 0 risk, the platform does not participate in settlement' (youtube.com/@ldxp_cn).

- Scale (third-party data):
    - The open-source project Samge0/wzyp-view scraped the whole site; its 2026-09 snapshot shows **250 shops and 11,042 products for sale** , across card codes, articles, resources and entitlements.
    - X @gm365(2026-08-15) scraped 13k messages from a GPT account Telegram group and identified **29 Chain Shop stores with 377k cumulative orders** . The top store has been open 97 days and sold 138k orders (1,424 a day on average). Most stores opened in the past 3 months, and 5 Baoji stores sell nearly identical items, already running as a store network (one person operating several stores).
    - A data-leak post about 2026-10 said it 'affected 40k+ merchants' (NodeLoc topic/113570). That's the cumulative registered merchant count, not the number of active shops.

- What they sell: mostly AI subscriptions. Direct-top-up GPT Plus sells for ¥115–135, Pro 5x for ¥590–680, Pro 20x for ¥1,050–1,258 (@gm365's tally). Also finished accounts and Claude Code, Gemini and Grok codes (BoAIle and OpenPrice price pages).

- Web or app: **web only** , no app found. All traffic lands on the web: buyers click a wzyp.cn/shop/<shop-code> link from the seller and order directly. Seller back office is at pay.ldxp.cn.

### 2. Data: this is a 'domain change', not 'new growth'

Data from the traffic database; Tranco as of 2026-11-05, CrUX as of 2026-09:

| Date | wzyp.cn | ldxp.cn |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | Not in the top 1M | 63,220 |
| 2026-09-10 | Not in the top 1M | #58,859 (best) |
| 2026-10-01 | 652,864 | 63,783 |
| 2026-10-15 | 443,512 | 78,723 |
| 2026-10-29 | 271,542 | 139,420 |
| 2026-11-05 | 222,547 | 219,259 |

- CrUX global tier: ldxp.cn (pay.ldxp.cn) stayed in the top 50k from 2026-05 to 08, but **dropped to top 1M in 2026-09** . wzyp.cn **newly entered the top 100k in 2026-09** . The Taiwan tier shows the same swap: ldxp fell from top 10k to top 100k, and wzyp newly entered at top 10k. Japan, Korea, and the US show the same pattern.

- Conclusion: from September, the shop links buyers visit switched from ldxp.cn to wzyp.cn, and the two domains moved in opposite directions. Tranco is a 30-day rolling average, so wzyp's climb only shows 1–2 months after the actual switch. Combined, the platform's total traffic is roughly **flat, maybe slightly down** : in August one domain ranked around 60k, and now the two domains each rank around 220k. The recall card's line 'newly charted for real Chinese-speaking buyers worldwide' is the same traffic under a new domain.

- In CrUX, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the US, the Philippines and Vietnam have the highest tiers. Mainland China isn't among the 21 countries CrUX covers; when mainland buyers access it through a proxy, the traffic is attributed to the countries where those proxy exits sit, such as Taiwan, Japan and the US. So most of this 'overseas' traffic is likely **mainland users behind the firewall** , not overseas Chinese (an inference, not directly verified).

- wzyp.cn is an older domain; Wayback has archives from 2004, so Lianyong Xiaopu probably bought or grabbed it (unverified).

#### Why the domain changed (timeline)

- Around 2026-07 mid-month: a NodeSeek thread 'Is Lianyong Xiaopu down?' (post-829537) reported that, apart from the main site, all shop and product links were unreachable. A commenter said 'a .cn domain full of overseas AI products, it's odd it hasn't been cracked down on', and another said 'they have other domains'.

- 2026-08-11: X @daitu0822 posted that 'the old Lianyong shop closed completely, a shame about my 500+ agents', and moved to another platform (deposit ¥30, fee 1.8%, 'almost half the price of Lianyong'). This suggests the platform was clearing out AI top-up shops.

- 2026-09: wzyp.cn entered CrUX while ldxp.cn dropped a tier. By 2026-09-14, people were already posting wzyp.cn/shop/mumaren directly on X (@alin_zone).

- 2026-10-12: V2EX and NodeLoc both had posts saying 'someone hacked Lianyong Xiaopu'. Merchant real-name and Alipay details were reportedly leaked, 'affecting 40k+ merchants', and many shops were shut down. Afterward someone said the platform 'now only supports WeChat Pay, previously Alipay too' (NodeLoc topic/113589).

- Inference: the domain change was mainly meant to separate the shop links buyers use from the main ldxp.cn brand, reducing the risk of crackdowns and blocking. The official side has not stated a reason; unverified.

### 3. Competitors

| Competitors | Form | Scale / timing | How it differs from Lianhdong Xiaopu |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16688 Kawang / Jingfaka (Jingruan, jingfaka.cn) | Web; consignment platform + sells card-delivery system source code | Veteran; holds 401 of the 43 channel sellers on OpenPrice | More corporate; also sells source code for self-hosting; far smaller share among AI-subscription sellers than Lianyong Xiaopu |
| Dujiao-Ka / Dujiao-Next | Open source; self-hosted card-delivery sites | dujiaoka stopped maintenance in 2026-02; Dujiao-Next is taking over; 39 channel sellers on OpenPrice use it | You need your own server, domain and payment interface; high technical bar, but the risk of being blocked or leaked is entirely yours |
| Anime card-delivery (acg-faka) | Open source / platform | 23 on OpenPrice | Same as above, niche |
| The 1.8% platform @daitu0822 mentioned on X (name not found) | Web consignment platform | Poaching Lianyong agents since 2026-08 | Half the fee, deposit ¥30, aimed directly at Lianyong's sellers |
| Xianyu, Taobao | big tech | goofish.com ranks 18k on Tranco | AI top-up gets delisted there; sellers can only trade privately, with no automatic delivery |
| Self-built top-up sites (payforchat.com, getgpt.pro, aichongzhi.plus, etc.) | Web | getgpt.pro ranks about 330k on Tranco, steady | Single-brand direct sales, not a platform; some self-built sites host their card codes on card-delivery platforms like Lianyong Xiaopu |
| WildCard (bewildcard.com) | Virtual credit cards | Dropped out of the top 1M on Tranco after 2026-08 | Lets users bind a card and subscribe themselves, instead of buying a reseller's top-up |

In AI subscriptions, Lianlu Xiaopu is clearly in first place. Of the 401 channel sellers listed in the OpenPrice channel table, Lianlu Xiaopu ranks 294, 16688 Kawang 43, Dujiao Shuka 39, and Erciyuan Faka 23 (read at openprice.cc/channels, 2026-11-07).

### 4. How users found it

The platform itself barely acquires users. Traffic all comes from sellers bringing their own; the platform only supplies links and checkout:

- **GitHub repos used as SEO landing pages** (confirmed): a batch of 'ChatGPT top-up guide' repos whose homepages point to wzyp.cn/shop/3F5YOW2H. jijizidekai/chatgpt-plus-pro-Recharge-China was created at 2026-08-09,449 stars and is now 404. The luoyangdekai/… repo with the same shop code was created in 2026-10-14, gained 7 stars in 77 days, and is now at 254 stars, its description stuffed with 'ChatGPT top-up / GPT reseller / Codex reseller' keywords (github repo_profile plus GitHub API). Many similar repos exist: liangshanbo789 (1,078 stars), leon7482 (848), daichongaixiamo (328), hhtower/price-comparison (246), and others, each pointing to a different shop. This shows 'GitHub repo + top-up keywords' has become the standard playbook in this space.

- **Telegram groups** (confirmed): the @gm365 data comes from a GPT-account Telegram group, with 6,000+ offers a day, and sellers put their 链动店铺 shop links in their bios.

- **X, forums** (confirmed): on forums like NodeSeek, NodeLoc, V2EX and linux.do, people regularly post wzyp.cn/shop/xxx links directly (e.g. NodeSeek post-850933, post-1013260; X @alin_zone). Some even stuff shop links into spam issues on the Apache casbin mailing list.

- **Price comparison and aggregator sites** (confirmed): OpenPrice, BoAIle, and 铺街 (pk.upsui.com) by gm365 list 链动 shops sorted by price, with a "去抢购" (go buy) button that jumps straight to the shop.

- **Bilibili, YouTube tutorials** (confirmed, but per-video views not measured): videos like "stop paying full price for ChatGPT" funnel viewers to resale shops.

- **Agent distribution / store farms** (verified): the supply marketplace supports one-click sourcing, so one supplier can have hundreds of agents opening shops (@daitu0822 "500 multiple agents"). The Edge extensions and Greasyfork scripts like "链动小铺 supply enhanced filter" and "merchant enhancement tool" were built by merchants to batch-source products.

- Ads: our ad library doesn't cover it (we only track products on our list), and grey-market goods generally don't run regular ads.

### 5. Why it took off

1. **Timing** : in 2026, demand for high-priced subscriptions like Codex, ChatGPT Pro 100/200 and Claude Code exploded, but domestic users can't pay with foreign cards. That gave rise to an industry of resale and account sales doing thousands of orders a day (@gm365: the oldest shop has only been open 158 days, "a typical emerging industry"). These sellers need a checkout that is "zero barrier, auto-delivers codes, and accepts RMB."

2. **Zero cost to open a shop** : no servers, no domain, no coding. Pass real-name verification and you can open a shop by paying 3–4% in fees (@xiaoyuboi). Compared with 独角数卡, which requires building your own site and finding a payment API, the barrier is far lower.

3. **Direct settlement** : money goes straight into the seller's own payment account, and the platform never touches it (official YouTube). Neither buyers nor sellers have to fear the platform running off with the money, which matters especially for grey-market goods.

4. **Supply marketplace and agents** : suppliers list goods, agents connect with one click, and hundreds of branch shops sell at once. The network effect comes from the supply side: the platform with the most stock attracts all the agents. This is also why 73% of the channels in OpenPrice are on it.

5. **Clustering effect** : as more sellers join, price comparison sites, Telegram groups and GitHub repos all default to 链动 links, so buyers become familiar with and trust this checkout (someone on NodeSeek asked "is 链动小铺 reliable?" and people in the thread kept recommending specific shops).

### 6. Differentiation

Compared with established card-selling platforms (鲸发卡/16688) and open-source self-hosted options (独角数卡), 链动小铺's difference isn't the technology. It comes down to three things: "the platform never touches the money, opening a shop is free, and goods can be distributed." It also got there earlier in **tolerating and gathering AI subscription goods** . That difference is what made it take off: it bet on the biggest class of virtual goods of 2026. But the difference came with costs: a rectification (July), shop cleanups (August), a forced domain change (September), and a data leak plus Alipay being cut off (October). wzyp.cn's climb is a side effect of those costs.

### 7. Visibility and copycats

- Visibility: **it's being talked about in small circles** . A major Chinese AI-community X account, @gm365, wrote an analysis of it (377k orders sold). NodeSeek, NodeLoc and V2EX discuss its outages and leak. Third-party data tools already exist (wzyp-view, the Chrome extension 链动小铺助手, Greasyfork scripts). No mainstream media coverage, and no public platform revenue.

- Copycats: the 1.8% low-fee platform @daitu0822 mentioned is poaching its agents; 16688 card-selling networks, 独角数卡, and anime-themed card shops are competing for AI sellers; a group of AI subscription price-comparison sites (OpenPrice, BoAIle, 铺街, hhtower/price-comparison) are piggybacking on it.

### 8. What others can borrow

- A structure where "the platform doesn't touch money, only charges a service fee and handles delivery" can reassure sellers of grey or high-risk categories to come and open shops.

- Building distribution on the supply side (a supply marketplace plus one-click agents) makes it easier to create a network effect than acquiring users on the buyer side.

- The seller-side traffic playbook can be carried over to other "scarce overseas subscriptions and service proxy buying" niches: GitHub repos with keyword stuffing and a homepage pointing to the shop, Telegram bios, forum link posts, plus price aggregator sites.

- But be ready for rectification and bans: use multiple domains to separate buyer links from the main brand, and harden security early (it was breached because of a backend vulnerability).

### 9. Uncertain

- Real platform transaction volume and active shop count: the 250 shops come from a single September scrape, while the 40k is cumulative merchants. The two use different definitions.

- The exact reason and date for the domain change, and how wzyp.cn was acquired.

- Whether platform traffic clearly dropped after the October leak: Tranco lags, and October's CrUX data won't be out until mid-to-late November.

- The name and scale of that 1.8% platform.

- Of the overseas-country traffic in CrUX, what share is mainland users behind the firewall versus real overseas users.

### Sources

- traffic library: rank_day (wzyp.cn, ldxp.cn, 2026-07-30 to 11-05), crux_domain (2026-05 to 09); github library: repo_profile (2026-11-07); GitHub API (luoyangdekai repo; jijizidekai repo already 404)

- X @gm365 2026-08-15:[x.com/gm365/status/2088533709431734674](https://x.com/gm365/status/2088533709431734674)

- X @daitu0822 2026-08-11:[x.com/daitu0822/status/2087116267186692604](https://x.com/daitu0822/status/2087116267186692604)

- X @xiaoyuboi shop-opening tutorial: [x.com/xiaoyuboi/article/2067094007868694572](https://x.com/xiaoyuboi/article/2067094007868694572)

- X @alin_zone 2026-09-14:[x.com/alin_zone/status/2099435063427711163](https://x.com/alin_zone/status/2099435063427711163)

- NodeSeek "Is 链动小铺 down?": [www.nodeseek.com/post-829537-1](https://www.nodeseek.com/post-829537-1)

- NodeLoc leak thread: [www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/113589](https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/113589), [www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/113570](https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/113570)

- V2EX 1248154(2026-10-12):[www.v2ex.com/t/1248154](https://www.v2ex.com/t/1248154)

- wzyp-view:[github.com/Samge0/wzyp-view](https://github.com/Samge0/wzyp-view)

- OpenPrice channel table: [www.openprice.cc/channels](https://www.openprice.cc/channels); BoAIle: [boaile.com/](https://boaile.com/)

- Official YouTube: [www.youtube.com/@ldxp_cn](https://www.youtube.com/@ldxp_cn)

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.