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Agent Payment Observatory

What the field is talking about, and how fast. Bubble area shows hits per thousand items in this week's corpus; colour shows the layer. The corpus is our own crawl and does not reflect web-wide popularity; method and definitions here.

Period 2026-W44 (not frozen yet)Items this week 2982 · publishers 376Base 2026-W28 = 100Download this week's raw CSV

Ranking (density this week)

  1. 01Stablecoin121.4‰34-28%
  2. 02USDT34.2‰53-34%
  3. 03USDC31.5‰76+119%
  4. 04GENIUS Act14.8‰62+19%
  5. 05Agentic commerce10.4‰176+26%
  6. 06Agentic payments8.4‰28+16%
  7. 07x4027.4‰62-60%
  8. 08MiCA7.4‰7+19%
  9. 09Base5.4‰—-42%
  10. 10Sanctions screening3.4‰—
  11. 11MAS (Singapore)3.0‰—-2%
  12. 12MCP2.4‰40+128%
  13. 13AML2.4‰—+128%
  14. 14Tempo2.0‰—
  15. 15KYA1.3‰—
  16. 16Agent identity1.0‰—
  17. 17Agent wallet1.0‰—-2%
  18. 18PYUSD1.0‰3-2%
  19. 19Arc1.0‰—-2%
  20. 20Mastercard Agent Pay1.0‰—

density ‰ · index · 8w

Emerging (fastest-growing, last 8 weeks)

  1. AP2first 2026-W39new
  2. MPPfirst 2026-W39new
  3. ERC-8004first 2026-W37new
  4. KYAfirst 2026-W37new
  5. Agent identityfirst 2026-W37new
  6. Mastercard Agent Payfirst 2026-W38new
  7. Stripe agentic commercefirst 2026-W38new
  8. Coinbase AgentKitfirst 2026-W37new
  9. Skyfirefirst 2026-W43new
  10. Catena Labsfirst 2026-W39new
  11. OpenAI commercefirst 2026-W41new
  12. Payment mandatefirst 2026-W36+1094%

How to cite

OceanAlt Agent Payment Observatory, 2026-W44, https://oceanalt.com/en/observatory · method obs-v1.0

Permanent URL per period; frozen weeks are never recomputed. Machine access: /api/observatory/index?term=x402 · /api/observatory/bubbles · /api/observatory/emerging