{"id":"rank.l9.v4","title":"Actor at liveness 9 (independent counterparties, operator-set aware)","unit":"count of actors","chain_set":"eip155:8453 (Base)","window":"rolling 30 days for the counterparty count","definition":"Everything rank.l8plus.v3 requires, and its payments that left its control (rank.l7plus.v2) reached at least three INDEPENDENT counterparties within the last 30 days. A counterparty is independent when it is a contract that is not bot-like (counterparty.botlike.v1), or when at least one registered agent OUTSIDE the paying agent's operator set (cluster.ratio.v1: same bound wallet, same current owner, same minter or same first funder, each link ignored above 50 registrations) also pays it in counted payments.","method":"Distinct receiving addresses over the window among the payments rank.l7plus.v2 counts; contract code from the counterparty table; bot-like contracts from the daily receipt check; the operator sets from agent_clusters, rebuilt daily. Measured before the switch on 13 October 2026 (20:19 UTC): 71 of the 72 L9 agents kept the level under this rule; applied 13 October 2026 at 21:22 UTC with 72 agents at L9 under both rules at that instant.","excludes":["Repeat payments to the same address, which count once however often they recur.","An address only this agent and its own operator set pay.","A contract that forwards what it receives in the same transaction, is unverified, unlabelled and paid from at most two operator sets (bot-like)."],"does_not_assert":["That two registrations in one operator set belong to one person: they share a chain fact.","That the operator sets are complete: an operator that funds each agent from a fresh address leaves no link, so this rule closes the simplest case only."],"source":"AFG-Pulse payment scan","since":"2026-10-13","supersedes":["rank.l9.v3"],"revisions":[],"body_sha256":"afa883c582f2dfb616ed17fd08832bd4ce98d6b023a91e5ebd71758d5f89d245","url":"https://agenticfinancegraph.com/def/rank.l9.v4","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"}