As of July 4, 2026, the measured on-chain agent economy spans 186,346,271 cumulative events across six protocol families, including 154,531,962 x402 payment settlements that moved $40,937,189 in stablecoins. This is observed on-chain activity — not a market forecast — and it refreshes hourly from the open dataset.
Most published answers to “how big is the agent economy” are forecasts of future commerce — McKinsey's trillions by 2030, Juniper's multi-billion agentic-commerce curves — or enterprise-software market sizing that has nothing to do with on-chain activity. This page answers a narrower, checkable question: how much agent-protocol activity is observable on public blockchains right now. That means transaction and event counts across six protocol families (x402, ERC-8004, Virtuals ACP, Olas, Tempo MPP, and Base's agentic ecosystem), plus the stablecoin volume x402 settlement actually moved.
The two kinds of numbers answer different questions and should not be blended. A forecast prices the opportunity; a measurement prices the present. When a report says agents will transact trillions, and the measured settled volume is in the tens of millions, both can be true — the gap is the distance between thesis and adoption, and tracking that gap over time is precisely what this dataset is for.
What counts as 'the agent economy' here
Inclusion is protocol-level, not vibe-level: an event counts if it is emitted by one of the tracked agent-protocol families on a public chain. Events are not dollars — a registry registration, a commerce memo, and a payment settlement are different units, which is why the table below keeps them as separate rows and only x402 carries a USD volume figure. Double counting is possible where protocols overlap (an ACP job can settle via a payment rail), so the total is best read as an activity index, not a census of unique economic acts.
Also asked
Is the agent economy really worth trillions?
Trillion-dollar figures are forecasts of future agentic commerce (McKinsey projects $3–5T by 2030), not measurements. The measured on-chain footprint today — the number on this page — is many orders of magnitude smaller. Both numbers are useful; confusing them is not.