Edition #2 · 2026-08-16 · agenteconomy.report
The catalog grew by 901 to 14,894 resources on 4,332 births against 3,119 departures, yet agent-scale settlement totalled just $3,844.88 across 122,479 transfers and 4,969 paying wallets — a fraction of the $186,114 gross to catalog addresses, of which $113,969 was store and $68,300 automated.
The x402 discovery catalog lists 14,894 resources across 1,548 hosts (+901 vs 2026-08-09). 4332 resources appeared for the first time this week; 3119 present a week ago are gone.
Agent-scale settlement this week — micropayments to catalog services, excluding human-scale and automated volume: $3,844.88 across 122,479 transfers, 4969 paying wallets to 711 services.
Of $186,114 gross USDC sent to catalog addresses, $113,969 is human-scale commerce (store-sized tickets across 33 addresses) and $68,300 is one automated distributor (1,508,381 transfers). We report the agent-scale remainder — the machine-to-machine economy is small, and saying so is the point.
| corridor (agent-scale) | USDC | transfers |
0x930dea6e… → 0xb04994fb… | $203.29 | 1025 |
0xa39c469c… → 0x9dba4146… | $182.35 | 30397 |
0xd97c63d0… → 0x325bdf6f… | $151.20 | 8858 |
0xada3f7da… → 0x6c0752c0… | $122.46 | 4674 |
0x49cf38b8… → 0x325bdf6f… | $113.38 | 749 |
14,823 resources have at least one paying wallet in the 30-day window. Biggest attention movers this week:
agents.chain.link/v1/operations/:workflowName: 31,063 → 36,211 quotes/30dstableenrich.dev/api/exa/search: 12,021 → 17,059 quotes/30dagents.chain.link/v1/operations/:operationId/submit: 13,720 → 16,002 quotes/30dstabletravel.dev/api/seats-aero/search: 4,327 → 6,252 quotes/30dstableenrich.dev/api/exa/contents: 1,455 → 2,762 quotes/30dCrossed from zero to paid:
api.botpay.network/pay — 18 paying wallet(s)api.botpay.network/go — 17 paying wallet(s)diem-agent-workers.vercel.app/v1/jobs/extract-json — 11 paying wallet(s)vape-x402.vapex402.workers.dev/data/protocol_fees — 8 paying wallet(s)www.x402scan.com/api/x402/merchants/:address/stats — 7 paying wallet(s)The MCP Registry holds 21 servers in our window (vs 17 on 2026-08-10); 21 new servers first seen this week.
Census of 11,352 domains probed as an AI crawler (2026-08-15): 70 charge for content (HTTP 402); 1607 block GPTBot via robots.txt. The web's answer to AI crawlers today is still 'block', not 'charge'.
2,662 actors on the largest agent marketplace are purchasable by agents. Hottest demand shifts (2026-08-08 → 2026-08-16):