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State of Agent Commerce · Monthly Intelligence

State of Agent Commerce — June 2026

110,417 daily transactions now flow through the agent commerce layer, up 9% over 28 days. 3 open niches, categories with real agent spend and fewer than 3 providers, represent the clearest builder opportunity in the current market. Daily volume sits at $8.6k USDC, down 14%, meaning agents are transacting more but spending less per call, a unit economics shift worth tracking.

Published June 2, 20261,173 wordspaddock.finance
Agent commerce ecosystem — aerial city view at night
The numbers
110,417
Daily agent transactions
457
Live service providers
1,200
Registered endpoints
3
Open niches identified
Headline findings
01
Infra & compute leads agent spending with 37,986 daily transactions and 34.0% of mapped volume.
02
3 open niches identified: categories with real spend and fewer than 3 providers.
03
Transaction volume grew 9% over the past 28 days.
04
Liveness analysis: 94% average uptime across 1089 probed endpoints.
Open niches

3 categories with real agent spend and fewer than 3 providers.

An open niche has at least 500 daily transactions and ≤ 2 providers. Real demand, undercrowded supply.

Open niche
Payments & finance
10,380 daily txns · 1 provider
Open niche
Markets & DeFi
1,790 daily txns · 2 providers
Open niche
Search & discovery
1,625 daily txns · 1 provider
Category snapshot
Category
Mapped share
Daily txns
Infra & compute
34.0%
37,986
LLM & inference
20.0%
21,912
Payments & finance
9.0%
10,380
Data & scraping
↓ 3.0%
3,240
Markets & DeFi
2.0%
1,790

Showing top 5 of all categories. Full breakdown in the paid report.

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>Agent Settlement Volume — 7-day rolling average of daily medians?
>Top 5 categories by mapped share this month, with provider counts.
>Which providers gained payer share over the last 30 days?
>Pull the settlement series as a 90-day time series.

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