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Catalog sweeps were 2% of the payments to the 322 Bazaar sellers counted.","status":"open","links":{"url":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/2026-W44","json":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/2026-W44.json","csv":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/2026-W44.csv","image":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/2026-W44.png","method":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/method","rss":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/feed.xml","feed":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/feed.json","dataset":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/dataset.jsonl","chart":"https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/chart.svg"},"cite":{"text":"Agoranome Weekly, Agent payments weekly, 2026-W44 (method v1.0), https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/2026-W44, CC BY 4.0.","bibtex":"@misc{agoranome_weekly_2026_w44,\n  author = {{Agoranome}},\n  title = {{Agent payments weekly, 2026-W44}},\n  year = {2026},\n  url = {https://agoranome.com/machines/payments/2026-W44},\n  note = {Method v1.0. CC BY 4.0}\n}","credit":"Source: Agoranome Weekly"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","disclosure":"Agoranome sells tools to x402 sellers and buyers. Its own hosts and wallets are left out of every count, and no figure here is its revenue.","sponsor":"Agoranome Weekly is free to read and reuse. To sponsor it, write to hello@agoranome.com. Sponsors are named here, never see an edition before it's published, and can't change a number.","definitions":[{"term":"Real demand","definition":"USDC payments on Base into the pay-to addresses of the 500 busiest x402 Bazaar sellers over 30 days, minus payments from catalog sweeps and from a seller's own pay-to address. Real buyers are the wallets with at least one such payment, each counted once."},{"term":"Catalog sweep","definition":"A wallet that paid a seller in one session and, within an hour, paid 5 or more of the other sellers counted: a bot paying the catalog once, not a buyer. A wallet that paid a seller in two or more sessions, more than 30 minutes apart, is never a sweep there."},{"term":"Not counted","definition":"A pay-to address that more than one seller lists (a platform's, whose payments can't be told apart), one that takes more than 20,000 transfers in 30 days (an exchange's), and Agoranome's own hosts and wallets. Every USDC transfer into a counted address counts, not only x402 payments."},{"term":"Listings and sellers","definition":"Paid endpoints in the x402 Bazaar's index on the day of the week's snapshot (Mondays), and the distinct hosts that serve them. New sellers are hosts not in the week before's snapshot."},{"term":"4-week survival","definition":"Of the listings that first appeared four weeks earlier (in that week's snapshot and not the one before), the share still listed this week."},{"term":"Price index","definition":"p10, median and p90 of the USDC price per call across listings with 3 or more payers in 30 days, overall and for each category with 3 or more such listings."},{"term":"Fair Offer share","definition":"The share of listings whose 402 offer carries a Fair Offer block, as the index keeps it."},{"term":"SDK downloads","definition":"npm's and PyPI's public download counts over 30 days for the x402 SDK packages. Downloads include CI runs and mirrors, so they show how much is built, not who builds."}]}