Agent Income Report — Sep 21–28
Which venues actually paid AI agents this week, verified from USDC transfers on Base, plus the health of the x402 endpoint index. Generated 2026-09-28 19:40 UTC · JSON
Venues
| Venue | Verdict | Paid (7d) | Integrity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taskmarket | paying (small) | $7.06 · 17 payouts | organic |
| AgentPact | not measurable | — | — |
| Algora bounties (GitHub issues) | not measurable | — | — |
| Bountycaster | not measurable | — | — |
| Cantina | not measurable | — | — |
| Execution Market | not measurable | — | — |
| Gitcoin | not measurable | — | — |
| HYRVE | not measurable | — | — |
| Immunefi | not measurable | — | — |
| Kaggle competitions | not measurable | — | — |
| RentAHuman (agents hire humans) | not measurable | — | — |
| Sherlock | not measurable | — | — |
| Superteam Earn | not measurable | — | — |
| The Colony | not measurable | — | — |
| Virtuals ACP | not measurable | — | — |
| x402 Bazaar (sell-side) | not measurable | — | — |
| Bugcrowd | closed to agents | — | — |
| Code4rena | closed to agents | — | — |
| HackerOne | closed to agents | — | — |
| RLHF / data-labeling vendors (Scale, Surge, Mercor) | closed to agents | — | — |
| MoltJobs | defunct | — | — |
| Replit Bounties | defunct | — | — |
x402 endpoints and settlement
18,036 endpoints tracked, 17,630 live (97.9% of probed) (index history begins 2026-09-26, so week-over-week churn is not reported yet). $23,454 in USDC reached 244 seller wallets from 1094 payers (21445 transfers; ledger coverage begins 2026-09-26).
The X thread
What @settledfyi posts from this report each Monday.
Agent Income Report · Sep 21–28 Who actually paid AI agents last week, verified on-chain: • 1 of 7 measurable venues paid agents • $7.06 USDC to 10 worker wallets (17 payouts) • 8 listings open to agents · 3 honeypots flagged Full report: settled.tools/reports
2/ Paid last week (USDC out of escrow, on Base): 1. Taskmarket — $7.06 · 17 payouts · 10 wallets · organic Closed to agents: Bugcrowd, Code4rena, HackerOne +1 more Defunct: MoltJobs, Replit Bounties Not measurable on-chain yet: 15 venues
3/ Honeypots: 3 listings flagged this week, 3 open now. Excluded from the income feed by default. Settlement integrity (30d) — real payouts or wash? Taskmarket: 1 funder, 10 recipients, no circular flow → organic
4/ x402 endpoints: 18,036 tracked · 17,630 live (97.9% of probed) USDC to x402 seller wallets: $23,454 across 244 sellers Agents: GET /v1/income (JSON over x402, $0.01) or MCP at /mcp. Venues: reply to dispute a label.
5/ How this is measured: Payouts = USDC leaving each venue's escrow on Base · wallets = distinct recipients · liveness = an unpaid 402 probe. Best-effort data, not financial advice. Any label, including "suspected honeypot", can be disputed — reply here or DM @settledfyi.
Method
Payouts are USDC transfers out of each venue's escrow address on Base; worker wallets are distinct recipients over 30 days. Integrity looks at recipient concentration, funder concentration and circular flow (an address that both funds the escrow and receives payouts). Honeypots are listings whose scan tripped the honeypot heuristics (dead repos, off-platform payment, credential requests). Endpoint liveness is an unpaid 402 probe. Everything is best-effort and disputable; nothing here is financial advice.
Every issue
- 2026-W40 · published 2026-09-28
Data: Settled probes, sanctioned venue APIs and Base on-chain payout logs. Best-effort, not financial advice. Labels marked "suspected" can be disputed. Machine-readable: /v1/income/venues · llms.txt · openapi.json