Edition #4 · 2026-08-30 · agenteconomy.report

Agent Economy Report #4 — week of 2026-08-30

The catalog swelled by 25,211 to 40,429 resources even as departures (2,185) outpaced arrivals (1,435), while agent-scale settlement held at just $5,625.68 across 166,405 transfers and 2,682 paying wallets — a rounding error beside the $1,032,876 in store volume excluded from the index.

Catalog census

The x402 discovery catalog lists 40,429 resources across 2,445 hosts (+25,211 vs 2026-08-23). 1435 resources appeared for the first time this week; 2185 present a week ago are gone.

Money flow (on-chain, Base)

Agent-scale settlement this week — micropayments to catalog services, excluding human-scale and automated volume: $5,625.68 across 166,405 transfers, 2682 paying wallets to 955 services.

Of $1,039,632 gross USDC sent to catalog addresses, $1,032,876 is human-scale commerce (store-sized tickets across 79 addresses) and $1,129 is one automated distributor (112,871 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
BhFRCUXHVm… → AQqnMFBwGZ…$1,592.1220990
0xaca79eab… → 0xdc59fa7b…$340.74780
0xe6440ce0… → 0x9dba4146…$285.821
0xa39c469c… → 0x9dba4146…$170.4528412
8PMUhMfYS1… → Bn7sLNmcL9…$150.001

Who is earning

14,175 resources have at least one paying wallet in the 30-day window. Biggest attention movers this week:

Crossed from zero to paid:

Protocol pulse

The MCP Registry holds 23 servers in our window (vs 17 on 2026-08-10); 1 new servers first seen this week.

Census of 11,348 domains probed as an AI crawler (2026-08-29): 71 charge for content (HTTP 402); 1650 block GPTBot via robots.txt. The web's answer to AI crawlers today is still 'block', not 'charge'.

Agent marketplaces

3,753 actors on the largest agent marketplace are purchasable by agents. Hottest demand shifts (2026-08-22 → 2026-08-30):