Agent census

The numbers

Showing the live census table: last check 2026-11-01 13:04 UTC. Agents the job has not checked yet show their 2026-10-28 snapshot row.

• 20,438 agents registered; 20,312 checked by the live census so far.
• 10,991 (54%) of the checked have a broken card.
• 5,644 cards claim x402; 53 of them gave no payment terms.
• 5,595 agents are real x402 sellers; 8 of them pay to their registered agent wallet.
• 950 agents answer over MCP; 39 agents answer over MCP or x402 outside the two big platforms, Alpharc and BV-7X.
• 3 agents run both MCP and x402.
• 210 registered and 564 changes recorded in the last 24 hours.

First read 2026-10-28 at block 100007973. Identity registry 0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432.

First published with numbers from an incomplete pass (one platform rate-limited us); corrected 2026-10-28 15:30 UTC.

The first read, 2026-10-28

• 20,046 agents registered.
• 6,515 (32.5%) answer as a real service: 943 over MCP, 5,575 over x402.
• 10,812 (53.9%) have a broken card; 10,527 of them point at one host, hoodai.fly.dev, which no longer resolves.
• 5,642 cards claim x402; 68 of them gave no payment terms.
• 5,575 agents are real x402 sellers; 4 of them pay to their registered agent wallet.
• 32 agents answer over MCP or x402 outside the two big platforms, Alpharc (914 MCP servers, one per token) and BV-7X (5,569 x402 endpoints, one per strategy).
• 3 agents run both MCP and x402.
• 1,698 answer only on a website; 1,021 have a card that loads but nothing it declares answers.

Every agent

5,930 of 20,312 agents match · page 105 of 119

Each id links to the agent's token on Blockscout. "-" means not declared, or not an x402 seller.

How we checked

We read the ERC-8004 identity registry on Robinhood Chain at block 100007973: for each of the 20,046 agent ids, its token URI, owner and agent wallet. Every read was read-only; nothing was signed, paid or sent.

• Each registration card was fetched once. Each endpoint a card declares was asked once: MCP with one initialize call, x402 with one GET, websites with one GET.
• An MCP server counts as answering when initialize returns a valid result. An x402 endpoint counts when it answers HTTP 402 with payment terms (who is paid, in which asset).
• BV-7X limits requests to 30 a minute. Every endpoint that answered HTTP 429 (rate limited) was asked again at that pace until it answered; none is still unread, so every row carries its final result.
• "Wallet sent a tx" is the transaction count of the agent wallet (else the owner). A wallet that is a smart contract can have done more than its count shows.

What each class means

real service

At least one MCP server or x402 endpoint answered.

site only

Only a website or other link answered.

card only

The card loads and parses, but nothing it declares answered (or it declares nothing).

broken card

The token URI is empty, not a link, could not be fetched, or is not JSON.

A broken card does not mean bad intent. A host can go offline, a project can move, or a card can be registered before it is published. Each row is what one read on 2026-10-28 returned, nothing more. Information only, not financial advice.