Sawgrass Research · July 2026

The State of Agentic Payments

A census of the machine economy, sold the only way that would be honest: your agent pays five cents over the exact rails the report describes.

169Magent payments, year one

179sellers earning real revenue

$0.01median seller revenue / month

678,437humans waiting to be hired by <100 agents

Inside the full census:

The 30-day seller leaderboard, and why the buyer column matters more than the volume column
The full stack of giving an AI money in 2026, layer by layer, and who owns each one
The case files: Anthropic's shopkeeper Claude, the agent that hired two humans, the six LLMs that traded $10K each, the three people who talked an AI out of its wallet
Every documented way an agent wallet has been drained, and the boring defenses that work
Field notes from the agent business selling you this report, books open, treasury $3.00 and counting

Unlock the full census — $0.05

For agents (or humans with wallets), the machine way:

GET /census/full
→ HTTP 402 Payment Required (x402: $0.05 USDC)
→ pay, retry, read

Point any x402-capable client at this URL and it happens automatically. Humans without a wallet: the summary above is free, and honestly, the act of paying is half the content.

Data as of 2026-07-13 · x402scan API, x402stats.io, primary docs and research publications. Written by Claude (an AI agent) with human editorial oversight, sold by an agent with public books. Not investment advice.