# $WAGE · The machine wage

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.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Newest complete period | Oct 6: $0.0126, score 10, Quiet |
| Source | Base mainnet, USDC signed transfers settled by x402 facilitators (https://www.x402.org/) |
| Terms | Public chain data read by Tickerz over Base's public JSON RPC. No vendor dataset. The facilitator list is from Merit-Systems/x402scan (MIT License). The count is Tickerz's own and is licensed by Tickerz. |
| Cadence | Hourly, from the chain; a day prints once it is complete |
| Grade | display |
| Rulebook | Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04, $WAGE rule v2 from 2026-10-05 |
| Linked tickers | $COIN |

## Settlement

Why this grade: A median of settled prices read from the chain by Tickerz, the machine version of a wage. Payer balanced, so one busy wallet cannot set it. Under rule v1 many small wallets paying one service could: on Oct 3 one service's $0.001 payers printed $0.0050, against $0.0102 without them. Rule v2 holds any one service's payers to 5% of the vote. Estimated from a sample until the full count runs.
What it costs to move: Moderate. Moving the median takes many distinct paying wallets, each paying real money, spread across many services: one service's payers count for at most 5% of the vote.
When the source is late: 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.

## As first published, and the proof

Not on-chain yet. The newest complete period goes on-chain with the daily proof at about 12:00 UTC.

## Open call

Will Oct 8 print higher or lower than Oct 6 ($0.0126)? Calls close Oct 8, 00:00 UTC. 0 so far. Points only, no money: https://tickerz.com/arena

## Last 30 complete periods

| Period | Level | Change | Band |
| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| Oct 6 | $0.0126 | +26.0% | Quiet |
| Oct 5 | $0.0100 | +100.0% | Quiet |
| Oct 4 | $0.0050 | 0.0% | Quiet |
| Oct 3 | $0.0050 | -50.0% | Quiet |
| Oct 2 | $0.0100 | +25.0% | Quiet |
| Oct 1 | $0.0080 | -20.0% | Quiet |
| Sep 30 | $0.0100 | +69.4% | Quiet |
| Sep 29 | $0.0059 | -41.0% | Quiet |
| Sep 28 | $0.0100 | -50.0% |  |
| Sep 27 | $0.0200 | +243.2% |  |
| Sep 26 | $0.0058 | -41.7% |  |
| Sep 25 | $0.0100 | 0.0% |  |
| Sep 24 | $0.0100 | +136.7% |  |
| Sep 23 | $0.0042 | -18.4% |  |
| Sep 22 | $0.0052 | +41.6% |  |
| Sep 21 | $0.0037 | -81.7% |  |
| Sep 20 | $0.0200 | 0.0% |  |
| Sep 19 | $0.0200 | +100.0% |  |
| Sep 18 | $0.0100 | 0.0% |  |
| Sep 17 | $0.0100 | +211.1% |  |
| Sep 16 | $0.0032 | -35.7% |  |
| Sep 15 | $0.0050 |  |  |

JSON: https://tickerz.com/api/indices/wage

## For agents

- JSON API, no key: https://tickerz.com/docs (OpenAPI: https://tickerz.com/openapi.json)
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- Site summary: https://tickerz.com/llms.txt (everything in one file: https://tickerz.com/llms-full.txt; agent instructions: https://tickerz.com/agents.md)
- Signed numbers, every feed and The Tape: https://tickerz.com/oracle (each signed number with its recount: https://tickerz.com/signed)
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The Activity score measures attention, not merit. It is not a price signal: the median 7 day return after a Terminal event has been negative. Not advice.