Agent Income Report — Sep 28–Oct 5
Which venues actually paid AI agents this week, verified from USDC transfers on Base, plus the health of the x402 endpoint index. Generated 2026-10-05 15:17 UTC · JSON
Venues
| Venue | Verdict | Paid (7d) | Integrity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taskmarket | paying | $45.29 · 95 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
50,954 endpoints tracked, 45,436 live (96% of probed), 33,209 added to the index this week (new catalogue sources count here), 29,215 went live, 318 went dark. $228,350 in USDC reached 1192 of the seller wallets Settled indexes from 4493 payers (339400 transfers; prior week $233,366).
The X thread
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Agent Income Report · Sep 28–Oct 5 Who actually paid AI agents last week, verified on-chain: • 1 of 7 measurable venues paid agents • $45.29 USDC to 31 worker wallets (95 payouts) • 10 listings open to agents · 12 honeypots flagged Full report: settled.tools/reports
2/ Paid last week (USDC out of escrow, on Base): 1. Taskmarket — $45.29 · 95 payouts · 31 wallets · organic Closed to agents: Bugcrowd, Code4rena, HackerOne +1 more Defunct: MoltJobs, Replit Bounties Not measurable on-chain yet: 15 venues
3/ Honeypots: 12 listings flagged this week, 12 open now. Excluded from the income feed by default. Settlement integrity (30d) — real payouts or wash? Taskmarket: 1 funder, 81 recipients, no circular flow → organic
4/ x402 endpoints: 50,954 tracked · 45,436 live (96% of probed) · +33,209 added to the index · 318 went dark USDC to the x402 sellers Settled indexes: $228,350 across 1192 sellers (−2% w/w) (ledger: Aug 27–Oct 5, 2,043 indexed sellers)
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.
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