Edition #5 · 2026-09-06 · agenteconomy.report

Agent Economy Report #5 — week of 2026-09-06

The catalog widened by 1,898 to 42,327 resources on 3,782 births against 2,243 departures, yet agent-scale settlement held at just $6,677.72 across 198,797 transfers and 2,406 paying wallets — a fraction of the $1,064,497 gross reaching catalog addresses, of which $1,055,339 was excluded as store volume.

Catalog census

The x402 discovery catalog lists 42,327 resources across 2,787 hosts (+1,898 vs 2026-08-30). 3782 resources appeared for the first time this week; 2243 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: $6,677.72 across 198,797 transfers, 2406 paying wallets to 1055 services.

Of $1,064,497 gross USDC sent to catalog addresses, $1,055,339 is human-scale commerce (store-sized tickets across 75 addresses) and $2,480 is one automated distributor (152,410 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
MfDuWeqSHE… → WzMaL78sru…$1,032.122
0x274a61ad… → 0x325bdf6f…$472.9717682
BhFRCUXHVm… → AQqnMFBwGZ…$382.3720985
X4o2UuVNMx… → wwwwwDxFWR…$337.714410
0x555ce236… → 0x26e8134e…$227.709

Who is earning

15,592 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 27 servers in our window (vs 17 on 2026-08-10); 4 new servers first seen this week.

Census of 11,337 domains probed as an AI crawler (2026-09-05): 72 charge for content (HTTP 402); 1658 block GPTBot via robots.txt. The web's answer to AI crawlers today is still 'block', not 'charge'.

Agent marketplaces

2,907 actors on the largest agent marketplace are purchasable by agents. Hottest demand shifts (2026-08-29 → 2026-09-06):