State of Agent Commerce — June 2026

325,013 settled transactions per day and $18.3k USDC per day — that is the current run rate of the x402 agent economy. Of the services Paddock can map to named providers, Markets & DeFi takes the largest slice at roughly 26% of the attributed market. Transaction volume grew 261% over the 30-day period; dollar volume grew 130% over the same window, signaling that agents are transacting more frequently at lower average ticket sizes.

Published July 1, 20261,435 wordspaddock.finance

Agent commerce ecosystem — aerial city view at night

— The numbers

325,013

Daily agent transactions

2,711

Live service providers

22,523

Registered endpoints

1

Open niches identified

— Headline findings

01

Markets & DeFi leads agent spending with 2,367 daily transactions and 1.0% of mapped volume.

02

1 open niche identified: categories with real spend and fewer than 3 providers.

03

Transaction volume grew 261% over the past 30 days.

04

Liveness analysis: 69% average uptime across 1094 probed endpoints.

— Open niches

1 category 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

Comms & messaging

1,027 daily txns · 1 provider

— Category snapshot

Query the entire agent economy in plain English.

Every number in this report is live in the Paddock API — and you don't need a query language to reach it. Connect Paddock's MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM client and ask:

>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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