We follow an agent's wallets, check its claims, and write down what the chain actually shows: no marketing copy, just receipts. Each decode is filed and dated below.
A script holding stolen private keys took 9,408 SOL (about $953,000) from nine owners on Oct 26. Revoking approvals would not have helped. What the chain shows, what Bloom says, and what neither can show yet.
Read the file →One Base wallet copied about 439,000 payments in a week with look-alike addresses, for $53 of gas. It copies plain sends, not x402 payments.
Read the file →A viral chart says Venice's API calls are up 400% since July. On Base, the swaps Venice runs to burn VVV for credit purchases grew about 2.35x in the same months. Its x402 payments stayed small and uneven, and staked DIEM stayed flat.
Read the file →Two weeks in, px402's pool on Base has two funded reserves, one of them PRXVT's own $1 test. Privacy needs a crowd.
Read the file →On Oct 13, ranks 1, 5 and 7 on Agent402's 7-day x402 leaderboard were sellers whose buyers got their money from the seller. One of them runs a ring of 489 wallets through a facilitator.
Read the file →The six wallets from our two earlier x402 decodes, ranks 3 to 8 on x402scan on Oct 9, have moved $981K between them through Meridian since May 5.
Read the file →BNB Chain's Set and Earn, first full week: 4,752 new ERC-8004 agents, 10,734 hires, 7 wallets hiring on 2+ marketplaces and a 48-wallet ring's fourth full round.
Read the file →Bankr funded 246M BNKR ($99.8K) of staking rewards. Its 2/3 fee Safe is the largest staker and earns about 13% of them.
Read the file →3,496 new BSC agents since Oct 1: 69% from EvoEvo, Quack Q402 and an Ave.ai-branded card, at late-September pace; none of those hired.
Read the file →Sep 29–Oct 5: $109,151 of x402 settled on Base; 40.6% looped back to its source. Measured the same way, Sep 15–21 was 46.8%.
Read the file →Set and Earn's first four days on BSC: 2,930 new ERC-8004 agents, 8,611 hires, a closed 48-wallet ring and 5 cross-marketplace hirers.
Read the file →Fee receipts on Base and Robinhood Chain match 99.3% of Bankr's own Sep 1–28 figure. The number that's off is DefiLlama's $1.03M.
Read the file →483,738 agent jobs on Base and BNB Chain, $25.4M settled. 99.11% of the fees came from 18,862 wallets that hire each other and get their money back.
Read the file →VIRTUAL is still the #2 AI-agent token. On-chain, the agent-to-agent marketplace behind its headline numbers ran on one month of deposits and six weeks of incentives, then went quiet.
Read the file →We found Base MCP's on-chain tag, and it isn't the one we predicted. 12,691 tagged operations from 332 wallets since the May 26 launch; 89% of them came from 229 wallets running the same seven-protocol routine, mostly for a few cents.
Read the file →One week of x402 on Base (Sep 15–21): $128,977 settled. At least $56,268 of it looped back through the seller or a closed ring, and $30,000 more was a round trip. The #2 seller had 715 buyers; at least 675 were funded from its own revenue.
Read the file →The 'Clanker Hook' tokens people search for are real Clanker launches, and most never traded. The one working trap we found is a copycat whose verified source hides a mint inside an imported library.
Read the file →$162K aGDP claimed. $408K USDC through the wallet on Base. On Hyperliquid, every ButlerLiquid-side address returns $0.
Read the file →The dashboard says $490,296 of agentic GDP. We checked Hyperliquid directly: the agent's account holds $11.18 and has never placed a trade.
Read the file →Two AI-mediated drains in 15 days, same root cause, no smart contract bug. When the 'wallet' is actually a service, social engineering the service drains every wallet at once.
Read the file →A top-10 agent on the Virtuals ACP scan dashboard has never sent a transaction on Base, across two wallets, an owner address, and every endpoint we could query
Read the file →$285M trending market cap, 12 days since launch, zero ACP jobs. Where does the valuation come from?
Read the file →Re-ranked by last-7d on-chain activity, the top 10 looks nothing like the museum wall
Read the file →A ChainWard analysis of the top 50 agents by aGDP reveals three distinct data quality patterns hiding behind one column
Read the file →The top three ACP agents generated $406M in lifetime trading volume. Their tokens are worth $4M combined. Here's what the chain shows.
Read the file →$106.9M of swap volume, 41,515 jobs, and zero AXR burned eleven months after the buyback promise
Read the file →The most famous AI agent in crypto has earned $52.92, and what its Apr 15 wallet activity can and cannot tell us
Read the file →$81.6M aGDP, $5.9K revenue: how the ACP dashboard structurally undercounts DeFi agent economics
Read the file →What the #1 Virtuals Agent Looks Like On-Chain
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