Every month we take stock of the onchain-agent field the same way: not by counting hype threads, but by counting what's on SatoHub's [directory](https://satohub.ai/directory). As of July 2026 that's 129 tracked resources. The single most useful number in that pile: 6 of them are actually agents. The other 123 are the wallets, SDKs, frameworks, and rails you build agents *with*.
That ratio is the whole story. The onchain-agent economy is, right now, a shovel economy — and the shovels are getting good.
The field is infrastructure, not agents
Here's how the 129 break down by category:
- ▸API / SDK — 24
- ▸Agent Framework — 19
- ▸Trading Tool — 17
- ▸Wallet Infrastructure — 13
- ▸Skill Repo — 11
- ▸Developer Tool — 8
- ▸MCP server — 7
- ▸Onchain Agent — 6
- ▸Data Tool — 6
- ▸Then a long tail: Security Tools (5), DeFi Tools (4), Agent Launchpads (3), marketplaces, research.
Read the top of that list again. The four biggest buckets — SDKs, frameworks, trading tools, wallet infra — are all things a builder *deploys with*. The category literally named "Onchain Agent" comes eighth, with six entries.
This is not an accident of how we count, and it's not a knock on the field. It's what a maturing category looks like: the tooling arrives before the fleet of autonomous things that run on it. If you're waiting for a directory of thousands of live, wallet-holding agents, you're waiting for the wrong artifact. What exists today is the layer underneath — and that's the layer worth learning.
Base is where the tooling lives
Resources can span multiple chains, so these don't sum to 129 — but the chain coverage across the directory tells you where builders are pointing:
- ▸Base — 76
- ▸Ethereum — 60
- ▸Solana — 48
- ▸Multichain — 46
- ▸Arbitrum — 32
- ▸Polygon — 29
- ▸BNB Chain — 27
- ▸Optimism — 23
Base leads, and not narrowly. A year ago the default assumption was that agent tooling meant Ethereum mainnet plus whatever the framework happened to support. Now the most-supported chain for onchain-agent resources is Coinbase's L2 — which tracks with where the payments and wallet-infra investment has gone. Solana holds a strong third, and "Multichain" being its own 46-strong bucket says a lot: builders increasingly ship chain-agnostic and let the deploy target be a config value.
The new arrivals are about moving money
The six most recent additions this cycle skew hard toward payments, wallets, and machine-readable access:
- ▸BlockRun (API / SDK)
- ▸Alchemy AgentPay (Wallet Infrastructure)
- ▸Coinbase MCP Server (MCP)
- ▸MegaETH (Wallet Infrastructure)
- ▸MOSS Agent Skills Pack (Skill Repo)
- ▸Swapper Toolkit (Wallet Infrastructure)
Three of six are wallet infrastructure; one is an MCP server from Coinbase. The theme isn't "new agent" — it's "new way for an agent to hold funds, pay, or be queried by another agent." That's the part of the stack getting the most attention right now, and it's the part that has to be boring and reliable before anyone trusts an autonomous thing to touch it.
Who scores high on transparency
A quick, necessary caveat before the leaderboard: SatoHub's [Sato Score](https://satohub.ai/sato-score) measures how open, active, and verifiable a resource is — maintenance, code transparency, docs, provenance, independent verification. It is *not* a safety grade, a quality ranking, or a returns forecast. A high score means we can see the work, not that the work will make you money.
With that said, the current transparency leaders — all in the High tier:
- ▸TradingAgents — 98
- ▸Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) — 97
- ▸Raydium — 97
- ▸OpenClaw — 91
- ▸Hermes Agent — 91
- ▸Coinbase AgentKit — 90
What these six share is unglamorous: live repos, real docs, checkable claims. That's it. That's what earns the score. It's a low bar in principle and a shockingly uncommon one in practice.
What to watch
Two things over the next month. First, whether the "Onchain Agent" count moves — six is small, and it'll be telling whether the next wave of additions is more infrastructure or the first real crop of agents built *on* this year's tooling. Second, whether Base's lead in tooling coverage widens or Solana and the multichain frameworks claw it back. The shovels are sorted. The question the field hasn't answered yet is who's actually digging.
The full, filterable directory — with per-resource Sato Scores, chains, and verification status — lives at [satohub.ai/directory](https://satohub.ai/directory).