{"id":"pay.usd.total.v3","title":"Counted payment value","unit":"USD","chain_set":"eip155:8453 (Base)","window":"all time since each registration's mint block","definition":"The summed USD value of every counted payment out of a wallet bound to a registered agent: a stablecoin transfer whose receipt was read, made after the registration existed, that was not a routing hop, did not go to one of the agent's own addresses and was not a loop return through a fee router.","method":"Sum of amount_usd over money_events of kind PAY with pre_registration false, pass_checked_at set and pass_through false. As in v2, a transfer to one of the agent's own addresses is recorded in own_transfers and excluded the same way a routing hop is. New in v3 (31 Oct 2026, 11:18 UTC): a loop return (pay.excluded.loopreturn.v1) is recorded in loop_returns and excluded the same way; its amount is published as loop_return_pay_usd_excluded. First applied to 274 payments, 1,818,739.78 USD, all from one agent, 22 to 30 Oct 2026.","excludes":["Pre-registration payments (pay.excluded.preregistration.v1).","Routing hops: money that arrived and left again on its way somewhere else (pay.excluded.passthrough.v1).","Transfers to the agent's own addresses: a payment is a change of who is entitled to the money, and moving it between one's own addresses is not one (pay.excluded.ownaddress.v1).","Loop returns: money an agent received through a fee router from an address bound to no agent, sent back to that address or to an address that funded it (pay.excluded.loopreturn.v1).","Payments whose receipt has not been read yet: held out until checked, never assumed."],"does_not_assert":["That this is the size of the agent economy. It is what we watched, from the wallets we have bound, on one chain, in stablecoins.","That the total is typical of its members: read pay.topactor.share.v1 and pay.usd.median.v1 beside it.","That the money was spent on goods or services: about half goes into positions the agent still holds (pay.composition.v1).","That every loop is removed: the loop-return rule is narrow on purpose (see pay.excluded.loopreturn.v1, known_gaps)."],"supersedes":"pay.usd.total.v2","source":"AFG-Pulse payment scan","since":"2026-10-31","revisions":[],"body_sha256":"f051821e445f797b60e8112599d76153bf9efb42b177f7fbaeb88a7f1b355057","url":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/def/pay.usd.total.v3","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"}