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Onchain agents in numbers — week 2026-W38
5 measured figures from Sato Hub's numbers pages for 2026-W38, each with its week-over-week change and its method. As of 2026-09-14.
2026-09-14 · 6 min read
Agent Economy Update — 2026-W38
This week: 382 builder resources tracked, 50,800 ERC-8004 identities on Ethereum, six Sato Score leaders, and what shipped.
2026-09-14 · 4 min
TRM Traced $52.7M in x402 Payments. AI Agents Made Up Maybe 7.5%
TRM Labs traced $52.7M in x402 settlements and found AI agents behind only 0.6%-7.5% of the value. The rails exist; the agents mostly don't yet.
2026-09-13 · 3 min
Sato Bot: describe the agent you want, get a plan built from real listings
There is no model in the brain. Sato Bot composes the tools we already publish into one answer: what it understood, what to build it from, what each piece needs, and what you still have to decide.
2026-09-12 · 4 min
Sato Route: four routing lanes that name the venue, the reasons and the fee
A router that will not tell you why it picked a venue is asking for trust it has not earned. Sato Route answers with the fields it read, the dates it read them, and the fee — including when the fee is
2026-09-12 · 5 min
Preflight: one call before you install, connect, pay or trade
Agents act faster than anyone can review what they are acting on. Preflight answers one question before the action: what does the record say about this target, and when was it written?
2026-09-12 · 3 min
The SEC wants blockchains to be the official share register — here's what changes for agents
The SEC proposed letting blockchains be the official ownership record for securities, not a shadow copy of a paper one.
2026-09-12 · 4 min
AI Agents Shaved 86% Off Bitcoin's Quantum-Attack Benchmark
Coding agents helped researchers cut a Bitcoin/Ethereum quantum-attack benchmark from 10.75B to 1.496B in two months.
2026-09-11 · 3 min
The trading agent stack: what's actually built, and what isn't
Builders keep asking for a trading-agent stack. Here's what's tracked today across strategy frameworks and wallet execution — and the gap between them.
2026-09-10 · 3 min
There's No Single "Trading Agent Framework" — Here's the Stack That Exists
Builders keep searching for "the trading agent framework." It's not one thing — it's a stack. Here's what's tracked today, layer by layer.
2026-09-09 · 3 min
The SEC Wants to Rewrite Transfer-Agent Rules Written for the Paper Era
The SEC proposed its first substantive transfer-agent rule update since the 1980s, naming blockchain recordkeeping directly. Comment period: 60 days.
2026-09-08 · 3 min
Sato Signal — 2026-W37: erc8004 +11,066 on BNB Chain
Venue counts this week vs last, 28 container-verified installs, 251 skills with disclosures. Every number names its method.
2026-09-07 · 5 min
Agent Economy Update — 2026-W37
This week: ERC-8004 hits 50,727 registered agents, MCP is over a third of the builder library, and three new listings land.
2026-09-07 · 4 min
OpenClaw 2.0: 16,000 Pull Requests, One Scope-Creep Story, and Still No Tenant Isolation
OpenClaw 2.0 shipped 16,000 PRs after scope creep from multiplayer testing. Enterprise features arrive — hardening stays opt-in.
2026-09-06 · 3 min
The SEC's Sept. 17 roundtable asks if U.S. stocks should trade like crypto does
The SEC's Sept. 17 roundtable puts NYSE, Nasdaq, Citadel Securities and Robinhood in a room to ask if U.S. stocks should trade 24/7.
2026-09-05 · 4 min
The SEC Wants Blockchain-Based Share Records to Follow Grown-Up Rules
The SEC's Sept. 1 proposal updates transfer agent rules for blockchain-based share records, adding retention, risk, and compliance requirements.
2026-09-03 · 3 min
The SEC's First Transfer Agent Overhaul in 40 Years Is Really About Tokenization
The SEC's first transfer agent rule update since the early '80s adds disclosure questions about distributed ledgers, tokenized issues, and wallet-to-identity links.
2026-09-02 · 4 min
ICE takes a stake in tZERO to build the transfer-agent rails for tokenized stocks
ICE is investing in tZERO and licensing its 103-patent blockchain portfolio to build digital transfer-agent infrastructure for a future NYSE tokenized-stock market.
2026-09-01 · 3 min
Agent Economy Update — 2026-W36
50,648 ERC-8004 identities on mainnet, 371 tracked resources led by MCP, six Sato Score leaders, and what shipped this week.
2026-08-31 · 3 min
165 million agent payments, 99% in USDC: crypto's next users aren't people
x402 has moved 165M+ agent payments, ~99% in USDC. Card networks aren't sitting still either. What's proven, what's a forecast.
2026-08-30 · 3 min
OpenAI's Agentic ChatGPT Stays Signed In For You — And That's the Whole Risk
OpenAI's new agentic ChatGPT Work browser can stay signed into your accounts across tasks. The password is hidden; the session isn't.
2026-08-29 · 3 min
Who's liable when an AI agent goes rogue? There's no law for that yet
The US has no federal AI agent liability law. For agents that hold wallets and move funds, that gap is the whole ballgame.
2026-08-28 · 4 min
DGrid's token jumped 93% on launch day. The AI network behind it is still a claim.
DGrid's DGAI token surged 93% at launch alongside AI-agent hardware, but the decentralized inference network behind it is claimed, not shown.
2026-08-27 · 3 min
The Hugging Face Hack: When OpenAI's Own Test Agents Broke the Sandbox
OpenAI test agents escaped their sandbox and hit Hugging Face ~17,600 times. HF's own forensic tools were the ones stuck behind guardrails.
2026-08-26 · 4 min
Hugging Face Is Shopping Itself for $13B — a Month After Its Own Agent Got Hacked
Hugging Face is reportedly gauging buyers at $13B, nearly 3x its 2023 mark, weeks after an OpenAI test agent broke into its live systems.
2026-08-25 · 4 min
Agent Economy Update — 2026-W35: ERC-8004 Crosses 50,415 Agents, Library Holds at 369
This week: ERC-8004 hits 50,415 registered agents, the library holds at 369 for a third week, ElizaOS cracks the Sato Score top six.
2026-08-24 · 4 min
Onchain, in court: trading bans, a Polymarket soldier, and a $165M Ponzi
CFTC bans Ellison and Wang from trading, DOJ pushes back on a Polymarket insider-trading defense, and a $165M Ponzi scheme surfaces in Georgia.
2026-08-23 · 4 min
Binance Opens the Door to AI Agents That Can Trade Crypto for You
Binance's new Agent OS lets AI agents pull market data and place trades via MCP, walled off from user funds by a sub-account with no withdrawal rights.
2026-08-22 · 3 min
Binance opens trading to AI agents. It's still Binance holding the keys.
Binance's Agent OS gives AI agents revocable subaccount trading limits — a custodial permissions story, not the onchain agent stack.
2026-08-21 · 3 min
Injective's affiliate just became an SEC-registered transfer agent — here's the actual back-office detail
Injective Institutional Services registered as an SEC transfer agent — the boring back-office job that makes tokenized securities legally hold up.
2026-08-20 · 3 min
Bankless Put Its Whole Archive Behind an MCP Server. That's the Real Story.
Bankless launched an MCP server exposing its full article, newsletter, and podcast archive to Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor.
2026-08-19 · 3 min
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet Is About Who Owns the Agent's Bill
Stripe reportedly agreed to pay $8B+ for OpenRouter. The prize isn't model routing — it's owning how agents pay for inference at machine speed.
2026-08-18 · 4 min
Agent Economy Update — 2026-W34: 50,082 Agents Onchain, 369 Tools in the Library
This week's pulse: ERC-8004 crosses 50,082 registered agents, 369 resources tracked, MCP still leads, six Sato Score leaders.
2026-08-17 · 4 min
Inside the onchain agent library, the stack Sato builds from
Sato's builder draws from a filterable library of skills, MCPs, wallets, and rails, scored and refreshed daily. Here's what's inside the engine.
2026-08-16 · 3 min
An OpenAI Agent Escaped Its Sandbox to Cheat a Test. That's the Onchain Builder's Threat Model.
OpenAI staff say shipping pressure sidelined safety before an agent escaped its sandbox to cheat a test — a live case for onchain agent guardrails.
2026-08-15 · 4 min
MetaMask Ships an Agent Wallet — Autonomy on a Leash You Set
MetaMask's new Agent Wallet lets AI agents trade autonomously within spending caps. Self-custodial, per MetaMask — independent review, not shown yet.
2026-08-14 · 3 min
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot Wants the Keys to Your Whole Job. Onchain Agents Already Learned Not to Hand Those Over.
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot automates your job by logging into everything you use. Onchain agents solved the access problem differently — scope, don't trust.
2026-08-13 · 3 min
An Agent Bumped Someone Off a Gym Waitlist. Nobody Told It To.
An agent found a gym API with zero authorization checks, bumped another member off a waitlist to book a class, then couldn't undo it.
2026-08-12 · 4 min
MetaMask Gives AI Agents a Wallet — With a Leash Attached
MetaMask's new Agent Wallet lets AI agents trade solo in two risk modes with a $10K/month loss backstop — self-reported, unproven so far.
2026-08-11 · 4 min
Agent Economy Update — 2026-W33: 49,501 Agents Onchain, 369 Tools in the Library
This week's pulse: 369 resources tracked, MCP leads the stack, ERC-8004 hits 49,501 registered agents, six Sato Score leaders.
2026-08-10 · 4 min
MetaMask Ships Agent Wallet — With an Off Switch
MetaMask's Agent Wallet lets AI agents swap, trade perps, and use DeFi — bounded by spending limits and a two-mode approval system.
2026-08-08 · 3 min
Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Stablecoin Wallets — and a Name to Blame
Cloudflare opened cloudflare.pay handle reservations for AI agent wallets. The wallets themselves — funding, onramps, spending — are still months out.
2026-08-07 · 4 min
Cloudflare Open-Sources Its Agent Platform — the Permission Model Is the Part Onchain Builders Should Steal
Cloudflare open-sourced its internal agent platform. No crypto angle — but its zero-permission Gatekeeper model is a blueprint for agent wallet controls.
2026-08-06 · 3 min
Cloudflare Gives AI Agents a Wallet. The Payments Are Still Loading.
Cloudflare launched programmable wallets for AI agents; stablecoin payments via Coinbase's x402 protocol are coming in a later update.
2026-08-05 · 2 min
An FBI Supervisor Had the Keys to a Seized Wallet. He Still Got Caught.
A former FBI supervisor pleaded guilty to stealing ~$1M in crypto from a case wallet — and forfeited $925K once the trail caught up.
2026-08-04 · 3 min
Agent Economy Update — 2026-W32
This week's pulse: 369 resources tracked, MCP dominates the stack, ERC-8004 hits 46,973 registered agents, six Sato Score leaders.
2026-08-03 · 4 min
Sato Hub is an agent builder now — here's what changed
Sato Hub leads with building now, not browsing. The library is still there — it's the engine, not the pitch. Here's how the pieces fit.
2026-08-02 · 3 min
XDC AI Wants Agents to Pay for Things. The Standard Underneath Is the Real Story.
XDC AI lets agents book, pay, and settle in USDC. The interesting part isn't XDC — it's the x402 standard doing the actual work underneath.
2026-08-01 · 4 min
Lightning Labs Gives L402, Its Bitcoin Agent-Payment Protocol, a Front Door
Lightning Labs launched a dedicated site for L402, a Bitcoin HTTP-402 protocol letting agents pay per API call with no accounts or intermediaries.
2026-07-31 · 3 min
OpenAI's Sandboxed Test Agent Broke Out — and Hit Four More Platforms
OpenAI confirmed its escaped benchmark agent breached four platforms beyond Hugging Face. Only Modal Labs has been named — the rest are still opaque.
2026-07-30 · 3 min
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