Edition #7 · 2026-09-20 · agenteconomy.report

Agent Economy Report #7 — week of 2026-09-20

Stripping $1,088,450 of store commerce and $2,197 of automated volume from $1,095,847 gross, the genuine agent economy settled $5,200 across 2,642 paying wallets this week.

Catalog census

The x402 discovery catalog lists 20,534 resources across 2,617 hosts (-21,567 vs 2026-09-13). 3015 resources appeared for the first time this week; 24592 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: $5,199.76 across 146,094 transfers, 2642 paying wallets to 1288 services.

Of $1,095,847 gross USDC sent to catalog addresses, $1,088,450 is human-scale commerce (store-sized tickets across 89 addresses) and $2,197 is one automated distributor (109,863 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
X4o2UuVNMx… → wwwwwDxFWR…$1,625.3110721
0xcfa370b0… → 0x158e90dd…$138.9913087
0x617fd668… → 0xd494a454…$137.1516
0xd6d6c859… → 0x26572ff2…$90.4064
HnPN9MFhqu… → 58AgxZtxYk…$87.17610

Who is earning

14,869 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 39 servers in our window (vs 17 on 2026-08-10); 4 new servers first seen this week.

Census of 11,466 domains probed as an AI crawler (2026-09-19): 72 charge for content (HTTP 402); 1255 block GPTBot via robots.txt. The web's answer to AI crawlers today is still 'block', not 'charge'.

Agent marketplaces

2,966 actors on the largest agent marketplace are purchasable by agents. Hottest demand shifts (2026-09-12 → 2026-09-20):