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We read every ERC-8004 "AI agent" on Base and joined it to its money. 1.2% have ever paid anyone.

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There are 95,882 AI-agent identities registered on Base under ERC-8004. Ask how many of them have ever paid anyone, from a wallet you can prove is theirs, after the identity existed, for something that was not a routing hop, and the answer is 1,198 . One in eighty. We run Agentic Finance Graph , an…

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  1. 2026-09-27 10:57 · DEV Community — AI
    We read every ERC-8004 "AI agent" on Base and joined it to its money. 1.2% have ever paid anyone.

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