State of agent payments, Q4 2026
Agoranome Weekly's quarterly report, from its weekly editions
The quarter in agent payments, from 2026-W44 to 2026-W46: 59,442 real payments from 1,931 buyers in 30 days at the end, -61% since 2026-W44, net of catalog sweeps and sellers' own payments.
In progress: 3 of 13 weekly editions so far. The final report is published after the quarter ends. Method v1.6.
Other public trackers count gross: every payment that settled, with tests, catalog sweeps and sellers' own payments left in, and every package download. Agoranome Weekly leads with what's real: payments from buyers, net of sweeps and sellers' own, and what sellers actually do. Others' totals stay as credited lines, for context.
Real demand on Base
2026-W44: 153,435 real payments from 4,377 buyers in 30 days. 2026-W46: 59,442 from 1,931 (-61%). Catalog sweeps went from 2% to 2.5% of payments.
Start and end
| What sellers do | 2026-W44 | 2026-W46 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings with 3+ payers | 8,660 | 5,826 | -33% |
| Fair Offer share of listings | 0% | 0% | – |
| Median price per call | $0.005 | $0.005 | +0% |
Every week
| Edition | Real payments | Real buyers | Sweep share | Fair Offer share | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-W44 | 153,435 | 4,377 | 2% | 0% | $0.005 |
| 2026-W45 | 189,205 | 4,361 | 1.8% | 0% | $0.005 |
| 2026-W46 | 59,442 | 1,931 | 2.5% | 0% | $0.005 |
State of x402 seller health
In 2026-W46, 96.6% of the busiest sellers' top listings answered with an offer a buyer agent could pay, against 95.2% in 2026-W44.
| Edition | Sellers read | Listings asked | Payable | Busiest payable | Sellers mostly failing | Other price | Other pay-to | security.txt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-W44 | 500 | 505 | 95.2% | 95.2% | 4.8% | 0% | 0% | 11.8% |
| 2026-W45 | 500 | 2,115 | 96.7% | 98.4% | 2% | 2.4% | 0.5% | 14.2% |
| 2026-W46 | 500 | 2,144 | 95.5% | 96.6% | 3.8% | 3.1% | 0.7% | 15% |
From each edition's Seller health section. * The scan didn't reach every seller that week. Counts only: no seller is named.
For context: gross counts
- The x402 Bazaar listed 3,232 sellers and 32,546 paid endpoints at the end, +19% sellers since the first edition, with 944 new along the way. Source: the x402 Bazaar, Coinbase's discovery index, read every Monday.
- @x402/core was downloaded 1,810,255 times in the last edition's 30 days. Downloads include CI runs and mirrors, so they show how much is built, not who pays. Source: npm's and PyPI's public download counts (pypistats.org).
Month by month
The signals between these weeks (which new sellers last, how many buyers pay again, where demand has no strong seller, and from January prices and what moves buyer agents) are in Agoranome Monthly.
Who pays for this
Agoranome Weekly is free to read and reuse. Agoranome takes no sponsors and takes grants only for named public work, with each one in its open book: agents pay for the Lab's tools per call, and no payment or grant changes a number.
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