{"id":"rank.l8plus.v2","title":"Actor at liveness 8 or above","unit":"count of actors","chain_set":"eip155:8453 (Base)","window":"all time","definition":"Everything rank.l7plus.v1 requires, and the agent's bound wallet still holds at least $10 in stablecoins (USDC, USDT, EURC at the day's EUR/USD rate, and DAI) at our most recent balance read. An agent with more than one bound wallet counts its largest float.","method":"balanceOf for the four stablecoins via Multicall3 over every ranked wallet, every six hours, and again at the moment an evidence pack is bought. The rank is recomputed from those reads by one set-based statement after each payment scan.","excludes":["Wallets whose balance we have not read.","Other tokens: ETH, wrapped ETH, LP and vault shares do not count toward the $10."],"does_not_assert":["That the balance is the agent's operating budget, or that anyone intends to spend it.","That an L8 agent is independent. Operators of fleets top many wallets up to just over $10 and spend them down, so the L8 count moves in steps when they do; rank.l9.v2 is the steadier measure."],"source":"AFG-Pulse payment scan + balance read","since":"2026-09-27","supersedes":"rank.l8plus.v1","note":"Published 12 October 2026. From 27 September 2026 the L8 line read the four-stablecoin float while rank.l8plus.v1 still said USDC; this version states the rule the counts have followed since then. The counts did not change on 12 October.","valid_until":"2026-10-13","superseded_by":"rank.l8plus.v3","revisions":[{"date":"2026-10-13","what":"Superseded by rank.l8plus.v3, which rests on rank.l7plus.v2. 562 agents were L8+ under this definition at 12:53 UTC on 13 October 2026, 557 under v3; see /api/changepoints cp-2026-10-13-ladder-v2."}],"body_sha256":"42149939071f1788bffee8e0d7fb883ad1cf8a9f798ab861830d01ddc28ed861","url":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/def/rank.l8plus.v2","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"}