{"id":"rank.l9.independent.v1","title":"L9 agents with three independent counterparties","unit":"actors","chain_set":"eip155:8453 (Base)","window":"counterparties paid in the last 30 days","definition":"Of the agents at L9 (rank.l9.v2: three or more counterparties in 30 days), those with at least three counterparties that are independent of the agent: an address with contract code (a venue, protocol or escrow), or an address that at least two different registered agents pay in counted payments. An address only this agent pays may be its operator's own, so it does not count here.","method":"Counted payments (receipt read, no routing hops, nothing before registration) from money_events; contract code from the counterparty table (eth_getCode); the number of distinct paying agents per address over all counted payments. Published beside actors_l9, not instead of it, by the payment scan.","excludes":["Agents below L9."],"does_not_assert":["That an excluded counterparty belongs to the agent's operator: only that nothing in our data shows anyone else pays it.","That a contract counterparty is independent of the operator: a fleet can pay its own contract."],"source":"AFG-Pulse payment scan","since":"2026-10-12","revisions":[],"body_sha256":"52eb7db9340f9a9dbe01cf2a1d9a02406bb18e0a73e78b97e557a4fc73f77a0a","url":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/def/rank.l9.independent.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"}