{"id":"pay.excluded.loopreturn.v1","title":"Loop returns through a fee router, excluded from counted payments","unit":"USD","chain_set":"eip155:8453 (Base)","window":"all time","definition":"USD value of counted payments from an agent's wallet W to an address P, or to an address that funded P, where P is bound to no agent, has plain code (an EOA, or an EOA with an EIP-7702 delegation), paid agent wallets at least 1,000 USD through the fee routers we index in the last 30 days of router activity, and paid W through one of them in the 30 days before the payment. Matched oldest first and capped at what W had received from P (gross less the fee) up to each payment; above the cap a payment stays counted.","method":"Every payment-scan run: source payers from the router events we index (cc_feecharged); each source payer's code read from a public node; its funders read from the chain (alchemy_getAssetTransfers for USDC into P, every 6 hours), a funder counting for a payment when its transfers to P fall within 30 days of it, before or after. Matched rows are recorded in loop_returns and excluded the way routing hops are, after their receipt check, and stay recorded. First applied on 31 Oct 2026, 11:18 UTC: one source payer, 279 candidate payments from one agent, 274 matched (1,818,739.78 USD: 930,748.38 back to the payer, 887,991.40 to two of its funders), 5 above the cap (9,909.29 USD) left counted.","excludes":["Payments already excluded for another reason (pre-registration, routing hop, own address, unchecked receipt)."],"known_gaps":["Loops through routers we do not index, loops made of direct transfers, and loops that pass more than one address beyond the payer's funders are not caught; they stay in counted payments.","Contracts (escrows, routers, vaults) are never source payers, so money an escrow pays out and receives back is not netted by this rule."],"does_not_assert":["That anyone did anything wrong: the rule describes where money went, never why.","Who controls the addresses in a loop: the chain shows transfers, not owners."],"source":"AFG-Pulse payment scan","since":"2026-10-31","revisions":[],"body_sha256":"670790a20fd1caa0f18cf692fd00057a508d73987c4226dfb07a13a8a717445e","url":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/def/pay.excluded.loopreturn.v1","ladder":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/ai-agent-liveness-methodology-l0-l9-ladder","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Agentic Finance Graph — https://agenticfinancegraph.com"}