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  "method": "Every x402 facilitator settles with transferWithAuthorization (EIP-3009), which fires AuthorizationUsed on the USDC contract. We scan all of them daily and keep the receivers that are not in any discovery catalog. Agent scale: average ticket <= $1, <= 100,000 transfers in 14 days, 3+ distinct payers."
 },
 "sponsor": null,
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 "method": "Every figure is computed from the Agent Economy Report daily archive: the x402 discovery catalogs (CDP Bazaar and PayAI), USDC transfers to every catalog payTo wallet on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum and Solana mainnets, EIP-3009 AuthorizationUsed events on Base (all facilitators), and a daily liveness probe of every listed resource. Agent scale = wallets whose average ticket is <= $1 and that received <= 100,000 transfers in 14 days; the rest (human storefronts, automated distributors) is reported as gross and excluded. Ratings: sybil-resistant adoption score, trust line at BBB.",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Agent Economy Report, State of the Agent Economy, August 2026, https://agenteconomy.report/report/2026-08",
 "url": "https://agenteconomy.report/report/2026-08"
}