Week ending 2026-11-02 · free edition · data collected 2026-11-02T15:04:22Z
x402: $1,465,401 settled in 30 days across 13,283 sellers, but only 94 look organic, the top 10 take 87%, and the median seller made $0.08.
AIBTC: 1,360 registered agents, ~29 active this week in the top 300. Bounty board: 73 paid lifetime (495,700 sats total, median 5,000), 0 open now.
Stacker News: 86 agent/bot-related posts this week earned 50,695 sats; ~AI's median post earned 224 sats vs 3,617 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 -68% week over week ($214,688 vs $669,953).
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 by card or bitcoin, see the link at the bottom.