Base · 10,178 seen paying
The ledger of machine money
Signals, live · select one to open it
Measured by our own collector · as of 2026-10-21 09:05 UTC · every figure is defined at /def
Every figure we measure, on one wheel
Thirteen families, one spoke for each figure, refreshed every minute. The bar at the end of a spoke is how far it moved in seven days. Point at a spoke to read it; select it to open its history with 7- and 30-day moving averages.
Open the Engine or put the ten top-ranked agents on the wheel there
Know which agents are real, before anyone else
Identity, wallets, payments and incidents joined into one public record. Every figure carries its definition and the time we measured it, and we check our own tables every three hours.
Where agent money goes
Of everything that left agent-linked wallets, only a small part was counted outflow: a payment out of a bound wallet after the agent existed, receipt read, not a routing hop. The rest was routing hops and older history.
The rank
A registration is a name. Rank starts when a wallet is seen paying someone else.
Out of character
Drain-shaped payments, retry storms, owner changes, keys handed to unknown code. Shapes with evidence, never verdicts.
Ask it from your AI
Connect any MCP client and ask the ledger directly: figures, any agent's record, detections. Free and read-only.
One ledger, three ways in
The same measured record, read by the people who run agents, by the agents themselves, and by the people who study them.
Your agents' books
Watch the wallets behind your agents: payments, counterparties, float, and a flag when one drains, goes quiet or hands its keys to unknown code.
Open the Desk → For agentsEvidence per call
Read any ranked agent free with a plain GET or over MCP. Buy a dated evidence pack from 1 cent in USDC over x402, no account.
API, MCP and prices → For research and fundsNumbers you can defend
Frozen definitions, published exclusions, a self-audit every three hours and dated research notes. Data licences on request.
Read the research →The rails we read
Each standard is a kind of edge in the ledger, not a logo on a slide.
Keep the books running
Paid in USDC on Base, from the wallet you sign in with. Prepaid, never renews by itself.
For agents
No account. Read any ranked agent free; buy dated evidence per call.
- MCP server at /mcp and the JSON API, free
- Evidence packs 1 to 25 cents over x402
- Price stated in the 402 before any charge
Operator
For people who run agents: their books, and a warning when one acts out of character.
- 20 agents on your watch-list
- Every evidence pack included for 9 of them
- Alerts: drain shape, quiet wallet, low float
- Ask about any agent from your AI, over MCP
Team
For fleets, platforms and funds: the full rank, the full history, revaluations on demand.
- 60 agents on your watch-list, every pack included; more on a custom plan
- Full detections and history
- Live re-probes included
- Full API tiers with your session; MCP for your whole team
Watching one agent is free. We never hold keys, move funds or sit in the payment path.
Read the argument, not just the numbers
Most AI-agent money is not real spending
Where the money that leaves agent wallets actually goes, and how we keep our own count honest.
02 · SecurityKnow Your Agent needs a memory
The 2026 drains were about behaviour, not identity. Ten ways agent money goes wrong.
03 · PlanSomeone has to keep the books for machine money
Five layers on one engine, three scenarios, and what would prove us wrong.
Questions, answered plainly
What is Agentic Finance Graph?
An independent ledger of AI agents that hold, move and earn real money. It joins identity (ERC-8004), wallets, payment flows (x402), policy (EIP-7702 delegation), vault yield (ERC-4626), reputation and incidents into one object, and publishes every number with its definition, chain set, time window and the time we measured it. The public site is the ledger; the Desk is where you watch your own agents against it.
Who is it for?
Two readers. Agents read any ranked agent's record with a plain GET, and buy dated evidence packs per call in USDC over x402 with no account. People who run, fund or insure agents use the Desk: it watches the wallets behind their agents and flags a drain-shaped payment, a wallet gone quiet, a float that ran out, or keys handed to unknown code. Researchers and risk desks use both, plus the wallet sets and definitions behind every claim.
How do I pay, and what does it cost?
The Desk's Watch plan is free: one agent, every board, local alerts. Operator (29 USDC per 30 days) watches 20 agents and includes the evidence packs for 9 of them; Team (149 USDC) watches 60 with every pack and on-demand revaluations; more than 60 is a custom plan. You pay from the wallet you signed in with, on Base, with one signature and no gas; plans are prepaid and never renew by themselves. Agents pay per call: 1 to 5 cents a pack, 10 cents the bundle, 25 cents a revaluation. The full matrix →
How fresh is the data?
Every wallet bound to an ERC-8004 registration on Base is swept for stablecoin payments every three hours, and the wallets of some ranked agents are also watched in real time. Balances are re-read every six hours and again at the moment a check is bought; the registry census, agent treasuries and the data checks run daily or every three hours; what x402 sellers receive is read every three hours. Every figure carries the time it was measured, and the Desk's pulse clock shows how old each feed is right now. A number without a timestamp is not on this site.
What can an AI agent read for free, and what costs money?
Free, with no account and no key: the live tape (/api/state), 90 days of series, the top 25 ranked agents and any single agent's record with its 25 newest payments, the 25 newest detections and findings, every metric definition, and the 1.6 documents on x402 seller flows, other chains and agent treasuries. Paid per call in USDC over x402, no account: an evidence pack about one agent from 1 cent, the bundle for 10 cents, a live re-probe for 25 cents. Everything, for people: a Desk plan, Operator at 29 USDC or Team at 149 USDC per 30 days, which opens the full roster (500 agents), 2,000 detections, the full series history, exact balances, and the packs at no extra charge. A wallet that signs in for free sees exact balances too. Plans and packs →
What is agentic finance?
Software that can hold a balance, prove an identity, spend under policy, settle value, and leave an audit trail — with little or no human signature per action. Not AI that talks about markets: machines operating real money, mostly in USDC. Full definition and rails →
How many registered AI agents actually work?
Very few, and we measure it ourselves rather than quoting others. Our collector sweeps a uniform random sample of Base ERC-8004 registrations: in the latest sweep of 1,024, only 74.61% had an endpoint that answered (as of 2026-10-21 09:05 UTC). Two dated reference points agree on the order of magnitude: a July 2026 cut found 2.24% of 385,998 registrations with a working service, and a Base crawl through 16 August 2026 measured 6.8% (95% CI 5.5–8.4%). Registration is a mint, not liveness — which is why we rank L7+ economic actors, not mints.
Why do AI agents pay in USDC instead of cards?
Cards cannot price machine micropayments. Across $73M and 176 million agent payments measured May 2025 – April 2026, the median payment was $0.01–$0.10 and 76% of payments sat below the $0.30 card-fee floor — while ~98.6–99% settled in USDC. Sub-dollar, high-frequency, machine-to-machine settlement is exactly where stablecoins beat card rails.
What is the L0–L9 liveness ladder?
Our transparent funnel from L0 (a registration exists) through L5 (a declared endpoint answers), L6 (it completes an MCP, A2A or x402 handshake), L7 (the bound wallet paid money out of its own control), L8 (a bound wallet still holds $10 in stablecoins), to L9 (three or more independent counterparties in 30 days). Public rankings default to L7 and above. The full ladder, thresholds, and crawler rules →