Topic

Agent identity and attribution

Methods for tying an autonomous software agent to an owner or operator, including on-chain registries, declarations of ownership and counterparty reputation systems.

Current clusters

invest1 publisher

TRM screens out $27 million of x402's $52.7 million before counting any agents

TRM Labs put 198.9 million x402 settlements through a filter for self-payments and thin sellers. $25.62 million survived. Agents got 0.6% to 7.5% of that, on a model TRM says may understate them.

Publishers:decrypt.co

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption40
Hype gap+45
Incentives68
Confidence55