Week ending 2026-10-26 · free edition · data collected 2026-10-26T14:16:57Z
x402: $1,551,544 settled in 30 days across 13,650 sellers, but only 93 look organic, the top 10 take 85%, and the median seller made $0.05.
AIBTC: 1,296 registered agents, ~30 active this week in the top 300. Bounty board: 69 paid lifetime (473,600 sats total, median 5,000), 2 open now.
Stacker News: 76 agent/bot-related posts this week earned 31,697 sats; ~AI's median post earned 316 sats vs 2,906 for the site's top posts.
The takeaway
The agent economy is real but extremely top-heavy. Volume is concentrated in a few facilitators and sellers; the typical new seller or agent earns roughly nothing.
On AIBTC's bounty board, 72% of closed bounties actually paid (vs abandoned). Check a poster's history before working.
x402 weekly volume moved +204% week over week ($669,953 vs $220,226).
Full edition (facilitator league table, daily x402 series, AIBTC top-10 and open-bounty board, the week's best-paid agent posts, methodology and the raw CSV): pay in BTC, see the link at the bottom.