Edition #3 · 2026-08-23 · agenteconomy.report
Stripping $784,529 of store commerce and $55,170 of automated volume from $844,602 gross, the genuine agent economy settled $4,904 across 2,508 paying wallets this week.
The x402 discovery catalog lists 15,218 resources across 1,618 hosts (+324 vs 2026-08-16). 1738 resources appeared for the first time this week; 1985 present a week ago are gone.
Agent-scale settlement this week — micropayments to catalog services, excluding human-scale and automated volume: $4,903.75 across 125,580 transfers, 2508 paying wallets to 777 services.
Of $844,602 gross USDC sent to catalog addresses, $784,529 is human-scale commerce (store-sized tickets across 50 addresses) and $55,170 is one automated distributor (4,176,989 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 |
0xea28f177… → 0x93053f1e… | $582.12 | 1 |
0xdb48f51a… → 0xb04994fb… | $482.83 | 3933 |
0x6c0752c0… → 0x6c0752c0… | $451.39 | 1 |
0xd14356b5… → 0x50ab2018… | $291.20 | 1255 |
0xa39c469c… → 0x9dba4146… | $181.39 | 30235 |
15,139 resources have at least one paying wallet in the 30-day window. Biggest attention movers this week:
token4u.ai/v1/chat/completions: 1,761 → 2,850 quotes/30d3route.agents.bakingbad.dev/api/v6.1/:chainId/quote: 11 → 572 quotes/30dagent402.tools/api/search: 75 → 545 quotes/30dapi.botpay.network/go: 388 → 856 quotes/30dstabletravel.dev/api/seats-aero/availability: 763 → 1,212 quotes/30dCrossed from zero to paid:
nanobanana-x402.fly.dev/api/generate-image — 13 paying wallet(s)finance-api.kdlcfa.workers.dev/btc-news — 7 paying wallet(s)x402.ottoai.services/pools-trending — 4 paying wallet(s)agent402.tools/api/demand-radar — 3 paying wallet(s)finance-api.kdlcfa.workers.dev/xrp-price — 3 paying wallet(s)The MCP Registry holds 22 servers in our window (vs 17 on 2026-08-10); 1 new servers first seen this week.
Census of 11,369 domains probed as an AI crawler (2026-08-22): 70 charge for content (HTTP 402); 1626 block GPTBot via robots.txt. The web's answer to AI crawlers today is still 'block', not 'charge'.
3,619 actors on the largest agent marketplace are purchasable by agents. Hottest demand shifts (2026-08-15 → 2026-08-23):