{"ticker":"WAGE","name":"The machine wage","counts":"What a paying wallet paid per call, per UTC day: the payer-balanced median price of a settled x402 payment on Base. Each payer's median price first, weighted by its calls, then the median across payers, so one wallet firing thousands of calls counts once. From October 5 2026 (rule v2) the payers of any one service hold at most 5% of that vote, so a fleet of wallets paying one service cannot set it either; days before keep their print. The 25th and 75th percentiles print beside it, on the same vote. Every USDC signed transfer (EIP-3009) on Base is counted from the chain; one transaction in sixteen, chosen by the low byte of keccak256(tx hash, block hash), is read in full. A payment counts when one of the 128 x402 facilitator wallets on the list settled it. A payer paying itself is left out. No level prints on a day with fewer than 50 payers in the sample.","unit":"dollars","period":"2026-10-08","period_kind":"day","question":"$WAGE (Median price per paid API call over x402, per day) prints above {strike} for the UTC day 2026-10-08.","strikes":[0.0042,0.0052,0.01,0.02],"strikes_from":{"prints":21,"through":"2026-10-05"},"settle_time_utc":"2026-10-09T12:40:00.000Z","settle_rule":"Settles on $WAGE as first published for the UTC day 2026-10-08: the value in column settlement_value of the settlement file. Expected with the daily proof at 12:40 UTC on 2026-10-09. A later revision by the source never changes it.","tie_rule":"A print equal to the strike resolves No.","fallback":"An hour the node cannot serve is retried on the next run and the day stays open, so nothing settles. A day with fewer than 50 sampled payers prints no level and is void.","precision":"US dollars to six decimals, the unit USDC settles in. A day is marked thin when sampled paying wallets are under 70% of the median of the 28 complete days before it, once 14 earlier days are on file, and the level still prints. Fewer than 50 still prints no level.","grade":"display","rulebook":"Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04, $WAGE rule v2 from 2026-10-05","source_url":"https://www.x402.org/","settlement_file":"https://tickerz.com/api/indices/wage/history.csv","mirror_file":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tickerzhq/tickerz-open/main/prints/WAGE.csv","proof":"https://tickerz.com/api/indices/proof","recount":{"repo":"https://github.com/tickerzhq/tickerz-open","guide":"https://github.com/tickerzhq/tickerz-open#recompute-gigs-and-wage","setup":["git clone https://github.com/tickerzhq/tickerz-open.git","cd tickerz-open","npm ci"],"this_period":"npm run gigs -- 2026-10-08","newest_print":"npm run gigs -- 2026-10-05"},"next_print_at":"2026-10-07T12:40:00.000Z","paste":"$WAGE (Median price per paid API call over x402, per day) prints above {strike} for the UTC day 2026-10-08.\nStrikes: $0.0042 / $0.0052 / $0.01 / $0.02\nSettles: 2026-10-09 12:40 UTC, on the published number (column settlement_value). A later revision never changes it.\nTie: A print equal to the strike resolves No.\nSource: https://www.x402.org/\nSettlement file: https://tickerz.com/api/indices/wage/history.csv\nRulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04, $WAGE rule v2 from 2026-10-05. Grade: display.","license":"Free to show, licensed to settle: https://tickerz.com/pricing","url":"https://tickerz.com/x/wage#list-it"}