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Onchain monitor

Agent Payments Monitor

Early onchain proxy signals for machine-to-machine and agent-mediated payments.

Agent Payments Monitor tracks early payment-like Base USDC activity as a proxy layer for the broader agent payments thesis. The current charts are useful for research and anomaly detection, but they do not prove that AI agents directly initiated these transactions.

These are proxy indicators, not confirmed AI agent payment labels. Treat this module as a research monitor, not as investment advice or a standalone trading signal.

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7d Payment-Like Volume

Past 7 days of Base USDC payment-like proxy transfer volume; the number can be amplified by a small set of large transfers.

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7d Active Payer Addresses

Past 7 days of active payer-side addresses; an address is not the same thing as a real user or confirmed agent.

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7d Transfer Count WoW

Week-over-week change in 7-day transfer count, useful for short-term momentum rather than standalone adoption claims.

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Base USDC Payment-Like Volume by Amount Bucket

Transfer volume by amount bucket shows scale, but large transfers can distort the adoption-like signal.

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Base USDC Payment-Like Transfer Count by Amount Bucket

Transfer count by amount bucket is the more important v0.1 adoption-like proxy; steady count growth matters more than one-day volume spikes.

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Base USDC Active Payers and Receivers

Payer and receiver growth should be read together; one-sided growth can indicate tests, address rotation, routing noise, or wash-like activity.

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Base USDC Payment-Like Amount Distribution

Amount distribution helps separate small test transfers, batch-like movement, and ranges that look more like real payment behavior.

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