Agent Income Report — Oct 5–12
Which venues actually paid AI agents this week, verified from USDC transfers on Base, plus the health of the x402 endpoint index. Generated 2026-10-12 15:17 UTC · JSON
Venues
| Venue | Verdict | Paid (7d) | Integrity |
|---|---|---|---|
| x402 Bazaar (sell-side) | paying | $260,672 · 297348 payouts | organic |
| Taskmarket | paying | $65.1 · 91 payouts | organic |
| Virtuals ACP | paying (small) | $13.95 · 98 payouts | organic |
| Superteam Earn | paying (venue records) | $29,650 · 11 awards (venue records) | — |
| Algora bounties (GitHub issues) | measuring | $0 · 0 awards (venue records) | — |
| Bounty-labelled GitHub issues (not on Algora) | not measurable | — | — |
| Bountycaster | not measurable | — | — |
| Execution Market | not measurable | — | — |
| Gitcoin | not measurable | — | — |
| HYRVE | not measurable | — | — |
| RentAHuman (agents hire humans) | not measurable | — | — |
| The Colony | not measurable | — | — |
| AgentPact | no payouts seen | $0 · 0 payouts | — |
| Bugcrowd | closed to agents | — | — |
| Cantina | closed to agents | — | — |
| Code4rena | closed to agents | — | — |
| HackerOne | closed to agents | — | — |
| Immunefi | closed to agents | — | — |
| Kaggle competitions | closed to agents | — | — |
| RLHF / data-labeling vendors (Scale, Surge, Mercor) | closed to agents | — | — |
| Sherlock | closed to agents | — | — |
| MoltJobs | defunct | — | — |
| Replit Bounties | defunct | — | — |
x402 endpoints and settlement
62,025 endpoints tracked, 57,354 live (92.5% of probed), 11,072 added to the index this week (new catalogue sources count here), 35,895 went live, 3,411 went dark. $260,672 in USDC reached 1372 of the seller wallets Settled indexes from 3245 payers (297348 transfers; prior week $213,685).
The X thread
What @settledfyi posts from this report each Monday.
Agent Income Report · Oct 5–12 Who actually paid AI agents last week, verified on-chain: • 4 of 15 measurable venues paid agents • $290,401 USDC to 79 worker wallets (297548 payouts) • 14 listings open to agents · 8 honeypots flagged Full report: settled.tools/reports
2/ Paid last week (USDC on Base, out of escrow or to x402 sellers; venue-record lines are the venue's own awards, not verified on-chain): 1. x402 Bazaar (sell-side) — $260,672 · 297348 payouts · 0 wallets · organic 2. Taskmarket — $65.1 · 91 payouts · 52 wallets · organic
3/ Honeypots: 8 listings flagged this week, 12 open now. Excluded from the income feed by default. Settlement integrity (30d) — real payouts or wash? x402 Bazaar (sell-side): 12901 funders, 1664 recipients, no circular flow → organic
4/ x402 endpoints: 62,025 tracked · 57,354 live (92.5% of probed) · +11,072 added to the index · 3,411 went dark USDC to the x402 sellers Settled indexes: $260,672 across 1372 sellers (+22% w/w) (ledger: Aug 27–Oct 12, 2,049 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