{"tool":"get_market_summary","tier":"free","date":"2026-07-31","snapshot_date":"2026-07-31","summary":{"daily_transactions":187013,"daily_volume_usdc":"$22,744","unique_buyer_agents":5035,"live_service_providers":1195,"registered_payment_endpoints":14761,"mpp_services":141,"mcp_registry_servers":null},"top_categories":[{"category":"Data & scraping","daily_transactions":3259,"providers":30,"share_of_volume":"33%"},{"category":"Search & discovery","daily_transactions":2268,"providers":29,"share_of_volume":"23%"},{"category":"LLM & inference","daily_transactions":1420,"providers":4,"share_of_volume":"14%"},{"category":"Infra & compute","daily_transactions":1350,"providers":11,"share_of_volume":"14%"},{"category":"Markets & DeFi","daily_transactions":818,"providers":38,"share_of_volume":"8%"},{"category":"Payments & finance","daily_transactions":707,"providers":12,"share_of_volume":"7%"}],"mcp_registry_basis":"Suppressed. This count was capped by pagination limits in every era of the series (100 before 2026-07-24, 20,000 after) and has never been a measurement. It will return when the underlying count is real.","share_of_volume_basis":"share_of_volume is each category's share of CATEGORIZED agent-commerce transactions (named categories only; excludes the uncategorized 'other' bucket and unindexed ecosystem volume). It is NOT a share of summary.daily_transactions, which is the full-ecosystem total. Only the top 6 categories are returned, so the shown rows sum to <100% by design.","providers_basis":"top_categories[].providers counts UNIQUE SERVICE DOMAINS attributed to each category (a provider settling through multiple wallets counts once). summary.live_service_providers is a different metric: the ECOSYSTEM-wide seller count from the upstream index (full universe, like daily_transactions). The two are different universes and are not comparable.","insight":"Data & scraping leads agent spending with 3,259 daily transactions across 30 providers.","pro_features":"For niche gap analysis (categories with room for new entrants) and report data, subscribe at https://paddock.finance/api-access (Builder $99/mo or Pro Agent $499/mo).","subscription_url":"https://paddock.finance/api-access","paddock_url":"https://paddock.finance/market"}