Everyone keeps asking which onchain agent to bet on. Wrong question. The interesting thing about the onchain-agent category in June 2026 isn't the agents — it's everything you need to build and run one. This month the SatoHub directory tracks 126 resources, and exactly 6 of them are listed as a launched agent. The other 120 are the toolchain. That ratio *is* the state of the market.
Here's the map, pulled straight from the directory.
It's an infrastructure category wearing an agent costume
Break the 126 down by category and the headline writes itself:
- ▸API / SDK — 23
- ▸Agent Framework — 19
- ▸Trading Tool — 17
- ▸Wallet Infrastructure — 12
- ▸Skill Repo — 11
- ▸Developer Tool — 8
- ▸Onchain Agent — 6
- ▸MCP, Data Tool — 6 each
- ▸Security Tool — 5
- ▸the long tail: DeFi tools, launchpads, marketplaces, research.
The stuff you *deploy with* — frameworks, SDKs, wallet rails, skill packs — dwarfs the autonomous things themselves roughly 20 to 1. That's not an accident of our curation; it's the shape of a field where the hard part is the plumbing. An agent that holds a wallet and acts onchain is a thin layer on top of a deep stack: key management, gas abstraction, a trading venue, a payment rail, a permission model. SatoHub is deliberately a directory of that stack, not a graveyard of token-bots that launched on a Friday and died by Monday.
So when a thread tells you "there are 10,000 onchain agents," the honest count of things worth deploying *with* is two orders of magnitude smaller — and that's the number that matters to a builder.
Base is where agents live
By chain (listings can support more than one, so these overlap):
- ▸Base — 51
- ▸Multichain — 43
- ▸Ethereum — 42
- ▸Solana — 27
- ▸Polygon — 18, Arbitrum — 18, Optimism — 16
Base leading is not a surprise if you've watched the year: Coinbase put agent tooling, gasless transactions, and a payments story (x402) on Base, and the resources followed the rails. "Multichain" sitting second is its own signal — a lot of the serious infrastructure refuses to pick one chain, because agents need to move where the liquidity and the users are, not where a single L2's marketing budget is.
What's verifiable (and what "verified" actually means)
The directory's highest Sato Scores this month:
- ▸Hyperliquid Python SDK — 90
- ▸OpenClaw — 83
- ▸Hermes Agent — 83
- ▸Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) — 82
- ▸TradingAgents — 82
- ▸dYdX — 82
Read that list correctly. The Sato Score is a transparency-and-liveness signal — how open, maintained, and verifiable a resource is — not a safety rating, a quality grade, or a returns forecast. A 90 means Hyperliquid's SDK is public, actively maintained, documented, and checkable. It does not mean it'll make you money, and we'd never claim it does. The whole point of scoring transparency separately from outcomes is so nobody confuses "we can see the code" with "it's safe to trust your funds to it." Most agent listings on the open internet stretch the word "verified" to mean "someone typed it into a form." Ours means we could actually check.
New this month
Six listings added since mid-June, and they tell you where the energy is going:
- ▸MegaETH and Swapper Toolkit and 0xGasless AgentKit — wallet infrastructure (gasless execution is clearly a theme).
- ▸MOSS Agent Skills Pack — a skill repo, the connective tissue between a model and the chain.
- ▸Franklin — one of the rare actual onchain agents.
- ▸CloddsBot — a trading tool.
Four of six are infrastructure or skills. Again: the toolchain is the story.
What to watch
Three things to track into July. One, whether the "Onchain Agent" category stays tiny — if the infrastructure is maturing, the count of *credible* launched agents should start climbing off 6, and we'll be watching which frameworks they're built on. Two, whether Base's lead widens or the multichain camp eats into it. Three, whether more listings can move their Sato Score up by simply *publishing more* — open repos, real docs, reproducible installs. That's the cheapest score to earn and the one most teams leave on the table.
The directory refreshes daily. The numbers above are this month's snapshot; the trend is the product.