Edition #6 · 2026-09-13 · agenteconomy.report

Agent Economy Report #6 — week of 2026-09-13

Stripping $1,068,673 of store commerce and $0 of automated volume from $1,080,686 gross, the genuine agent economy settled $12,013 across 3,241 paying wallets this week.

Catalog census

The x402 discovery catalog lists 42,101 resources across 2,957 hosts (-226 vs 2026-09-06). 2165 resources appeared for the first time this week; 2575 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: $12,013.31 across 177,071 transfers, 3241 paying wallets to 1117 services.

Of $1,080,686 gross USDC sent to catalog addresses, $1,068,673 is human-scale commerce (store-sized tickets across 96 addresses) and $0 is one automated distributor (0 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…$3,472.899460
0x2b4ee338… → 0xe9030014…$2,452.085632
0xd7f2b1fb… → 0x93053f1e…$582.121
0x55d322ef… → 0x26e8134e…$209.67713
0xcfa370b0… → 0x158e90dd…$139.0613092

Who is earning

14,587 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 35 servers in our window (vs 17 on 2026-08-10); 8 new servers first seen this week.

Census of 11,471 domains probed as an AI crawler (2026-09-12): 72 charge for content (HTTP 402); 1675 block GPTBot via robots.txt. The web's answer to AI crawlers today is still 'block', not 'charge'.

Agent marketplaces

3,770 actors on the largest agent marketplace are purchasable by agents. Hottest demand shifts (2026-09-05 → 2026-09-13):