In the 30 days to 18 Oct 2026, AI agents paid $182,737 in real purchases on Base: 334 ranked sellers and 105 wallets nobody could name. 75% of the $735,530 in raw payments was removed first.
Agent spend, 30 days
$182,737
Paid calls
2,125,747
Paying wallets
18,315
Ranked sellers
334
By coin: USDC $182,737 · EURC €0.54 ($0.60).
Raw on-chain: $735,530. 75% removed: under 10 buyers 72%, set aside after review 3%, self-pay 0.1%, dust 0.0%. How we filter
Unlisted: 105 wallets kept $47,202, counted in the totals but not ranked by name.
1,255 named sellers had fewer than 10 paying wallets, $4,177 in total. They are not ranked.
Reviews
Sellers checked by hand. Set aside: removed from the ranking on evidence. Cleared: no sign of fake buying, not an endorsement. Inconclusive: kept as computed and checked again next week. How reviews work
Many wallets, one customer: every buyer wallet we sampled was funded by one of three wallets seconds before it paid, with the exact amount. 99.9% of the money bought licenses to free CC0 demo clips.
The seller funds its buyers: one wallet funded 546 of its 555 buyers minutes before they paid, and the seller sent money back to that wallet.
0xa0af…2542
inconclusive
$443.22
268
2026-10-21
A wallet the seller paid $600 had funded 16 of its 268 buyers (20% of the money) minutes before they bought; how the other buyers were funded is not traced yet.
Payments look scheduled (a fixed 30-second rhythm, thousands of wallets paying exactly twice) but no money trail leads back to the seller; its token rewards for rating calls are not yet checked.
0xffde…6003
cleared
$34,323
15
2026-10-21
Invoice-like payments from 32 buyers with 27 different funders; the money goes to a treasury and nothing comes back. Owner unknown, so it stays Unlisted.
0x32bc…9008
cleared
$2,812
54
2026-10-21
Retail-priced payments from buyers with 19 different funders, nothing sent back, and growing direct sales outside x402. Owner unknown, so it stays Unlisted.
Method v1.1 · Sources: Coinbase Bazaar, Envio HyperSync, Coinbase CDP SQL API · Data to 18 Oct 2026 · Next update Monday 06:00 UTC