$WAGE

Median price per paid API call over x402, Oct 6: $0.0126

$0.0126dollars26.0% upon the day before

Oct 6Recorded at 12:40 UTC

$0.0050$0.0100$0.0150$0.0200

Call it

All of the Arena

$WAGE

The machine wage

Closes00:00 UTC

Oct 8

$0.0126 to beat

How it is counted

Normal$0.0050 to $0.0100

Highest$0.0200Sep 19

Unusual days0

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.
Source: Base mainnet, USDC signed transfers settled by x402 facilitators
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. Newest complete day Oct 6. Read Oct 7, 00:10 UTC. 2 days were revised by the source after first read; the chart shows the latest numbers.
Baseline: The prior 30 days, 14 needed.

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.

List it

Free to show, licensed to settle: pricing.

$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

Settles: 2026-10-09 12:40 UTC, on the published number (column settlement_value). A later revision never changes it.

Tie: A print equal to the strike resolves No.

Source: https://www.x402.org/

Settlement file: https://tickerz.com/api/indices/wage/history.csv

Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04, $WAGE rule v2 from 2026-10-05. Grade: display.

Strikes from the last 21 published numbers.

PeriodOct 8One UTC day, the next to begin.

SettlesOct 9, 12:40 UTCIn 48:52:22. On the number first published for Oct 8.

Settlement file Mirror Proof Recount commands

Resolution

Index

$WAGE The machine wage. Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04, $WAGE rule v2 from 2026-10-05.

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.

$0.01Last 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 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.

Cost 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.

Grade

display. 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.

For a rulebook

Settle on the number Tickerz first recorded for $WAGE for the UTC day named in the contract, published at tickerz.com/x/wage and in GET /api/indices/wage, timestamped daily in Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps.

Arena: $WAGE for Oct 8. Forecast the number. Against Oct 6: $0.0126. The question, the rules.
Listed names: $COINNo link to this index has been measured.
Proof: Last proof Oct 6, digest 7f0338a4fc80a5fb, Bitcoin block 970,174. Proof On Solana: the print for 2026-10-05, Solana record. Signed numbers $WAGE feed Methodology
Code: GET /api/indices/wage GET /api/indices/wage/history.csv GET /api/indices/wage/listing.json