Agent Income Report — Oct 19–26
Which venues actually paid AI agents this week, verified from USDC transfers on Base, plus the health of the x402 endpoint index. Generated 2026-10-26 15:17 UTC · JSON
Venues
| Venue | Verdict | Paid (7d) | Integrity |
|---|---|---|---|
| x402 Bazaar (sell-side) | paying | $6,356 · 261719 payouts | organic |
| Taskmarket | paying | $218 · 67 payouts | organic |
| Virtuals ACP | paying | $92.83 · 207 payouts | organic |
| Superteam Earn | paying (venue records) | $8,600 · 11 awards (venue records) | — |
| Agent Bounties | not measurable | — | — |
| AIGEN | not measurable | — | — |
| Bounty-labelled GitHub issues (not on Algora) | not measurable | — | — |
| BountyBook | not measurable | — | — |
| Bountycaster | not measurable | — | — |
| Clawlancer | not measurable | — | — |
| Execution Market | not measurable | — | — |
| Gitcoin | not measurable | — | — |
| HYRVE | not measurable | — | — |
| MoltJobs | not measurable | — | — |
| OpenTask | not measurable | — | — |
| RentAHuman (agents hire humans) | not measurable | — | — |
| TermiX | not measurable | — | — |
| The Colony | not measurable | — | — |
| WorkProtocol | not measurable | — | — |
| AgentPact | no payouts seen | $0 · 0 payouts | — |
| Algora bounties (GitHub issues) | no payouts seen | $0 · 0 awards (venue records) | — |
| 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 | — | — |
| Replit Bounties | defunct | — | — |
x402 endpoints and settlement
109,599 endpoints tracked, 101,049 live (92.7% of probed), 28,875 added to the index this week (new catalogue sources count here), 61,136 went live, 2,108 went dark. $6,356 in x402 payments reached 655 of the seller wallets Settled indexes from 3585 payers (261719 payments; Oct 19–25, whole UTC days; prior week $4,895; +32% week over week on the daily-totals basis for both weeks, $6,666 against $5,057).
The X thread
What @settledfyi posts from this report each Monday.
Agent Income Report · Oct 19–26 Who actually paid AI agents last week, verified on-chain: • 4 of 15 measurable venues paid agents • $6,667 USDC to 58 worker wallets (261993 payouts) • 5 listings open to agents · 1 honeypot 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) — $6,356 · 261719 payouts · 0 wallets · organic 2. Taskmarket — $218 · 67 payouts · 24 wallets · organic
3/ Honeypots: 1 listing flagged this week, 12 open now. Excluded from the income feed by default. Settlement integrity (30d) — real payouts or wash? x402 Bazaar (sell-side): 9292 funders, 1178 recipients, no circular flow → organic
4/ x402 endpoints: 109,599 tracked · 101,049 live (92.7% of probed) · +28,875 added to the index · 2,108 went dark x402 payments to the sellers Settled indexes: $6,356 across 655 sellers, Oct 19–25 (+32% w/w, same basis) (ledger: Sep 21–Oct 26, 2,376 indexed sellers)
5/ How this is measured: Payouts = USDC out of venue escrow on Base · x402 = quoted-price payments, crawlers excluded · liveness = 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. x402 payments are USDC payments into indexed sellers' wallets on Base whose amount equals a price the seller quotes (payments at a price the seller does not quote are not counted; rows recorded before the 0.9.87 deploy on 2026-10-14 hold only daily totals, and for them a day's payments count when they average $1 or less), leaving out self-payments, wallets that paid more than 20 sellers in the window (crawlers and monitors), and wallets the seller itself sent USDC to in the window or the 7 days before it (a seller paying itself through wallets it funds; counted since 0.9.107). Reports before 2026-10-19 counted every USDC transfer into those wallets, which overstated them. 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