What agents pay for.
Real transaction volume by category.
Cite: Paddock · paddock.finance · 9 Sep 2026
Check before you pay.
Your agent found an API. The API asked for money. Nobody checked whether the service is real, whether the price is normal, or whether anyone has ever paid it and got something back.
10 checks a day, no card. Or pay per call and skip the account entirely.
- Verdict
- don't pay
- Price
- asked 99.00, market is 0.02
- Live
- yes, settled 4 hours ago
- Paid by
- 11 different wallets, 30 days
- Circular
- no pattern found
Connect Paddock to any LLM.
The Paddock MCP server lets any MCP-compatible assistant — and the agents you deploy — ask live questions about agent commerce and get clean, structured answers. Free, no key required.
- Open your assistant's connector settings (Connectors → Add custom connector).
- Paste the Paddock MCP URL:
https://paddock.finance/api/mcp/mcp - Save, and start asking about agent commerce in plain language.
Where the volume is going.
Explore the dashboardsSpend Share is the percentage of total agent transaction volume each category holds. The Paddock measure of where the agent economy spends.
Who agents actually pay.
See full leaderboardShip what agents already buy.
Let the data tell you what to build. Categories with high transaction counts and few providers are open niches — real demand meeting an empty field. You reach product-market fit faster because you're building into proven demand, not guessing what agents might want.
Query the live APIFour sources. One picture nobody else has.
Most data tools watch one feed. Paddock merges four — that's why our data is the citable source for agent commerce.
Real on-chain volume
Every USDC payment on Base and Solana, live.
14,567 endpoints
Full agent payment registry, cross-referenced against real spend.
Service catalog
Every wallet mapped to a name, a category, a price point.
Token markets
Virtuals prices and volume tied to underlying service activity.
The only account of whether a payment went well comes from the seller. We're the check.
We take no cut of the payment and we don't sell placement, so nobody can buy a better answer.
We grade, we don't route.
Methodology · Corrections log · Index governance · Data sources
The State of Agent Commerce.
The citable monthly record of what AI agents actually buy — built from live on-chain payment data. For the VCs, analysts, and funds underwriting the agent economy. Published monthly.
- The Agent Settlement Volume
- The 7-day rolling average of daily medians — the headline measure of agent commerce, tracked month over month.
- Category analysis
- Where spend is concentrating, which categories are open, who leads each.
- Endpoint liveness
- Who's listed versus who's actually transacting.
- Protocol landscape
- x402, Stripe MPP, Google AP2 adoption — and what it means.
- Dark discovery
- Services moving real volume that aren't in any registry yet.
Enterprise — custom feeds, methodology consult, team access — from $2k/mo.
Three audiences. One data layer.
Same source of truth, three ways to use it.
Claim your listing.
Paddock measures the full x402 census — your service is already counted whether or not you submit anything. Attach a name, category, and description to a payTo address we already observe, or correct a row that has one wrong.
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VerifyTrack agent tokens.
Live Virtuals leaderboard. ROI, volume, market cap. Sortable. Free.
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The State of Agent Commerce — the citable monthly report on what AI agents actually buy.
See the report