Paid calls settled over x402 on Base, per UTC day, between paying wallets and the services they pay; whether a person, a script or an AI agent holds a wallet is not on the chain. 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. The level is the estimate, every signed transfer times the payments per sampled transaction; its 95% range prints beside it.
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. Newest complete day Oct 6. Read Oct 7, 00:10 UTC. 15 days were revised by the source after first read; the chart shows the latest numbers.
Baseline
The prior 30 days, 14 needed.
Heavy wallets
Oct 5: 8 heavy wallets (over 1,000 paid calls each) made 27% of paid calls and paid 1.5% of the dollars. Daily x402 rows
The level counts paid calls on Base from a sample of one transaction in sixteen, and leaves out a payer paying itself.
The heavy-wallet stream counts every listed facilitator's payments on Base, and a wallet is not a person.
A complete day is marked thin when paying wallets in the sample are under 70% of the median of the 28 complete days before it. Fewer than 14 earlier days is not marked. The level stays. Sep 15, Sep 16, Sep 17, Sep 18, Sep 19, Sep 20, Sep 21, Sep 22, Sep 23, Sep 24, Sep 25, Sep 26, Sep 27, Sep 28, Sep 29, Sep 30, Oct 1, Oct 2 Thin, Oct 3, Oct 4, Oct 5, Oct 6.
$GIGSPaid gigs over x402. Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04.
Prints
Hourly, from the chain; a day prints once it is complete. The newest complete day is on the record after the daily proof at about 12:00 UTC.
As first published
2026-10-06 is not timestamped yet. The daily proof at about 12:00 UTC adds it.
53,284 gigsLast timestamped: for 2026-10-05, recorded 2026-10-06 in digest 7f0338a4fc80a5fb, Bitcoin block 970,174. Proof
The number as first published is final for settlement. A revision by the source is shown beside it and never replaces it.
Fallback
An hour the node cannot serve is retried on the next run and the day stays open, so nothing settles. A day is complete once its 24 hours are read; a day that cannot be read is void.
Precision
Whole gigs, rounded from the estimate, with the 95% range beside it. 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.
Cost to move
Moderate. A payment costs a transaction and the amount paid, so pushing thousands of fake gigs costs real money and shows up as a few payers with many calls.
Grade
display. Counted by Tickerz from the chain with no vendor in the path, but estimated from a one in sixteen sample on a free public node. It becomes a candidate when every transaction is read.
For a rulebook
Settle on the number Tickerz first recorded for $GIGS for the UTC day named in the contract, published at tickerz.com/x/gigs and in GET /api/indices/gigs, timestamped daily in Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps.
Heavy wallets
From every payment a listed facilitator settled on Base (the Goldsky stream); payments settled through a router contract are included from October 4 2026 and were 0.8% to 12.5% of a day's payments before that. A wallet is not a person; one operator can run many, so the share is a floor.
Arena
$GIGS for Oct 8. Forecast the number. Against Oct 6: 63,885 gigs. The question, the rules.
Heavy wallets made more than 1,000 paid calls that day. One operator can run many wallets, so the heavy share is a floor. Router-settled payments are in the stream from October 4 2026 (before that they were 0.8% to 12.5% of a day's payments). Batch-settled payments, about 7%, are not.
The record
The newest 24 hours read, sampled one in sixteen: the $GIGS and $WAGE method.
$GIGS · Paid gigs68,14567,367 to 68,924
$WAGE · Per gig$0.0126Middle half $0.0050 to $0.1000
Paid$19,811USDC, estimated
Payers1,352363 paid, in the sample
Paid gigs per hour
30 Sep 11:00 UTCPeak 8,75107 Oct 10:00 UTC
Who earns, who spends
24 hours · estimated
Services paid the most calls in the last 24 hours read
Service
Kind
Gigs
Earned
ax1-new.vercel.app
Market data
11,704
$234
0xfe80…47ee
Not in the directory
10,688
$11
0xa9dd…2315
Not in the directory
6,352
$15
0x8a12…0881
Not in the directory
6,062
$3,084
blockrun.ai
People and companies
3,063
$86
agent.pocket.network
Other
1,886
$9
api.surplusintelligence.ai
AI models
1,822
$708
0x3e0a…78e7
Not in the directory
1,773
$8
0x44ad…4700
Not in the directory
1,628
$16
www.api-xpay.com
Other
1,580
$491
Wallets that paid for the most calls in the last 24 hours read, with the USDC they hold now
Share of paid gigs · by the service’s own description
Not in the directory48%
Market data25%
Other13%
People and companies7%
AI models3%
Search and web3%
Utilities1%
Health0%
How the live payments are counted
Payment
Every x402 payment on Base settles as a USDC signed transfer sent by a payment service, a facilitator. A payment counts when one of 128 listed facilitator wallets settled it.
Sample
Tickerz counts every signed transfer from the chain and reads one transaction in sixteen in full, chosen by its own hash and its block’s, so nobody can steer the sample. Paid gigs is that sample scaled to the whole, with its 95% range.
Live
The live scene and today’s counts read a second record, every payment rather than a sample, for every listed facilitator, streamed from the chain by Goldsky within seconds. The feed and the wallet balances are read whole, live.
Routers
Payments settled through a router contract joined that stream on October 4 2026; from Sep 28 to Oct 3 they were 0.8% to 12.5% of a day's payments (12.5% on Oct 3, mostly Fluxa).
Wage
The machine wage is the middle price across payers, each payer counted once, so one busy wallet cannot set it. From October 5 2026 the payers of any one service hold at most 5% of that vote, so a fleet of small wallets paying one service cannot set it either: on Oct 3, before the change, one service’s $0.001 payers printed $0.0050 against $0.0102 without them.
Names
Names and kinds come first from Coinbase’s public directory of paid services, then from the other facilitators’ public directories.
Payer
A payer is a wallet: whether an AI agent, a script or a person holds it is not on the chain.