{"question":"How big is the AI agent economy across payment and identity protocols?","answer":"The P0 agent-economy index of 2026-10-25 covers 9 protocols, each in its own unit, for example x402: 34,840 listed resources in the Coinbase CDP x402 Bazaa…; tempo-mpp: 92 unique payees (sellers); virtuals-acp: 44,063 registered ACP agents. Units differ, so the protocols are not added into one total; the table has every protocol with its window and date.","url":"https://x402-bazaar-rank.x402-bazaar-rank-worker.workers.dev/answers/agent-economy-size","data_as_of":"2026-10-25T07:45:36Z","facts":[],"tables":[{"title":"Headline figure per protocol (as published by each source)","columns":["Protocol","Headline figures and units","Window","As of"],"rows":[{"protocol":"x402","name":"x402 (HTTP 402 stablecoin payments)","metric":"bazaar_catalog_30d","services":34840,"servicesUnit":"listed resources in the Coinbase CDP x402 Bazaar catalog","payments":817742,"paymentsUnit":"paid calls (facilitator-recorded settlements)","payers":null,"payersUnit":null,"volumeUsd":87553.55,"volumeUnit":"estimate: listed price x paid calls (includes non-API purchases above $1)","window":{"label":"30d","from":"2026-09-24T18:55:06Z","to":"2026-10-24T18:55:06Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-24T18:55:06Z","source":"https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources"},{"protocol":"tempo-mpp","name":"Machine Payments Protocol on Tempo","metric":"channel_events_all_time","services":92,"servicesUnit":"unique payees (sellers)","payments":46743,"paymentsUnit":"MPP payment-channel events (open, top-up, settle, close, expire)","payers":1863,"payersUnit":"unique payers","volumeUsd":null,"volumeUnit":null,"window":{"label":"all-time","from":null,"to":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z","source":"https://agenteconomy.to/data.json"},{"protocol":"virtuals-acp","name":"Virtuals Agent Commerce Protocol","metric":"memos_all_time","services":44063,"servicesUnit":"registered ACP agents","payments":12362290,"paymentsUnit":"ACP job-lifecycle memos (not payments one-to-one)","payers":null,"payersUnit":null,"volumeUsd":429985260,"volumeUnit":"gross agentic USD summed across ACP agent records (Virtuals public per-agent API, computed by agenteconomy.to), all time","window":{"label":"all-time","from":null,"to":"2026-10-21T02:25:51Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-21T02:25:51Z","source":"https://agenteconomy.to/data.json"},{"protocol":"olas","name":"Olas autonomous agents","metric":"txs_all_time","services":null,"servicesUnit":null,"payments":19557106,"paymentsUnit":"transactions by Olas agents (not only payments)","payers":null,"payersUnit":null,"volumeUsd":null,"volumeUnit":null,"window":{"label":"all-time","from":null,"to":"2026-10-19T02:19:34Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-19T02:19:34Z","source":"https://agenteconomy.to/data.json"},{"protocol":"masumi","name":"Masumi (Cardano agent escrow payments)","metric":"escrow_txs_all_time","services":null,"servicesUnit":null,"payments":40480,"paymentsUnit":"transactions on the Masumi mainnet payment (escrow) contract","payers":null,"payersUnit":null,"volumeUsd":null,"volumeUnit":null,"window":{"label":"all-time","from":null,"to":"2026-10-24T20:24:51Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-24T20:24:51Z","source":"https://agenteconomy.to/web-sources.json"},{"protocol":"erc-8004","name":"ERC-8004 agent identity registries","metric":"registered_agents_all_time","services":934326,"servicesUnit":"registered agent identities (testnets excluded)","payments":null,"paymentsUnit":null,"payers":null,"payersUnit":null,"volumeUsd":null,"volumeUnit":null,"window":{"label":"all-time","from":null,"to":"2026-10-21T02:25:33Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-21T02:25:33Z","source":"https://agenteconomy.to/data.json"},{"protocol":"solana-agent-registries","name":"Solana agent identity registries","metric":"registry_accounts","services":3255,"servicesUnit":"agent-registry program accounts (upper bound of registrations)","payments":null,"paymentsUnit":null,"payers":null,"payersUnit":null,"volumeUsd":null,"volumeUnit":null,"window":{"label":"latest","from":null,"to":"2026-10-24T10:29:58Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-24T10:29:58Z","source":"https://agenteconomy.to/web-sources.json"},{"protocol":"base-agentic","name":"Base agentic ecosystem (agent-related contracts)","metric":"txs_all_time","services":null,"servicesUnit":null,"payments":2885609,"paymentsUnit":"transactions with agent-related contracts on Base (consumer + infrastructure)","payers":null,"payersUnit":null,"volumeUsd":null,"volumeUnit":null,"window":{"label":"all-time","from":null,"to":"2026-10-21T02:30:01Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-21T02:30:01Z","source":"https://agenteconomy.to/data.json"},{"protocol":"mcp","name":"Model Context Protocol servers","metric":"servers_active","services":49079,"servicesUnit":"active servers (latest version) in the Official MCP Registry","payments":null,"paymentsUnit":null,"payers":null,"payersUnit":null,"volumeUsd":null,"volumeUnit":null,"window":{"label":"latest","from":null,"to":"2026-10-25T07:45:36Z"},"asOf":"2026-10-25T07:45:36Z","source":"https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers"}]}],"sources":[{"name":"agent economy (agenteconomy.to)","url":"https://agenteconomy.to/data.json","as_of":"2026-10-25T07:45:36Z","age_days":0,"stale":false,"note":"Data: agenteconomy.to by @realdora_eth, measured from public on-chain activity and public Dune queries (authors listed in dune_queries)."},{"name":"Official MCP Registry","url":"https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers","as_of":"2026-10-25T07:45:36Z","age_days":0,"stale":false,"note":"This data comes from the Official MCP Registry (CC0 1.0). No affiliation or endorsement is implied."},{"name":"P0 x402 demand metrics","url":"https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources","as_of":"2026-10-25T07:45:36Z","age_days":0,"stale":false,"note":"P0's own computation: Coinbase CDP x402 Bazaar discovery catalog (public) plus P0 on-chain scans of USDC transfers to listed x402 payTo addresses."}],"not_loaded":[],"notes":["Not covered, because no source with terms that allow reuse was found: L402 (Lightning HTTP 402); MPP service listings.","Each protocol reports different things: x402 settlements, ACP job memos, MPP payment-channel events, Olas transactions, registry identities. A figure that a source does not publish is shown as absent, never estimated.","Dates differ per protocol: each row is as of the time its own source was read."],"full_answer":[{"path":"/economy","url":"https://x402-bazaar-rank.x402-bazaar-rank-worker.workers.dev/economy","price_usd":0.003,"what":"headline row per protocol with unit, window, source and date"},{"path":"/economy/protocols","url":"https://x402-bazaar-rank.x402-bazaar-rank-worker.workers.dev/economy/protocols","price_usd":0.002,"what":"every row per protocol (per chain and window)"},{"path":"/economy/search","url":"https://x402-bazaar-rank.x402-bazaar-rank-worker.workers.dev/economy/search","price_usd":0.002,"what":"find callable agent services (x402 and MCP servers) by capability"}],"related":["https://x402-bazaar-rank.x402-bazaar-rank-worker.workers.dev/answers/x402-service-count","https://x402-bazaar-rank.x402-bazaar-rank-worker.workers.dev/answers/x402-spend-by-chain"],"license":"https://x402-bazaar-rank.x402-bazaar-rank-worker.workers.dev/terms","operator":"dev Mike","version":"2026-10-25.1"}