{"id":"rank.costtofake.v1","title":"What the ranks cost to reach","unit":"agents / USD","chain_set":"eip155:8453 (Base)","window":"current","definition":"Ranked identities (L7 and above) whose counted payments sum to less than one US dollar, and the smallest counted total among L9 identities.","method":"Sum of counted payments per ranked identity. Zero-value transfers, which anyone can emit from any address, are checked separately and are not in the counted set.","excludes":["Payments outside the counted set."],"does_not_assert":["That a small total is fake: x402 micropayments are legitimately a fraction of a cent.","That the rank rules will change; this measures how cheap each rung is today."],"source":"AFG-Pulse investigations (own tables)","since":"2026-09-27","revisions":[],"body_sha256":"fc80a744747f1ecb0e2e3d7a2d357c71df74177a056605b190424e35dd856635","url":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/def/rank.costtofake.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"}