Weekly statistic · tracked catalog

What is the average x402 payment?

mean $1.45¹ cite , median $0.02¹ cite — across 172,067¹ cite verified payments totalling $249,962.35¹ cite — in the week 2026-10-05 → 2026-10-11 (Monday–Sunday UTC), computed 2026-10-13 from the on-chain record through block 52,544,868³ cite .

Updated weekly · data as of 2026-10-13 · window 2026-10-05–2026-10-11 · method score-v1.0.0 · tracked-catalog data · methodology

Compared with the prior week

$1.45² cite mean payment this week vs $1.20² cite the prior week ( +21.2%² cite ). Median: $0.02² cite vs $0.02² cite ( +0.0%² cite ). Prior week: 2026-09-28 → 2026-10-04, all seven days coverage-published.

The underlying numbers

Dollar figures print to the cent; the exact integer micro-USDC values, the full provenance (flags version, block bounds, coverage, catalog size) and earlier windows are in /api/v1/stats/weekly/average-verified-payment.

What this measures

Two averages over the verified payments of one closed Monday–Sunday UTC week. The mean is verified volume divided by the payment count. The median is the middle payment when all of the week's verified payments are sorted by amount (for an even count, the average of the two middle values) — the same window-function median the engine uses per seller. Both are payment-level: a payment is one USDC transfer on Base that passes the published predicate.

The two answer different questions. A handful of large payments pulls the mean up while most payments stay small, so the median says what a typical payment looks like and the gap between them says how long the tail is. Neither is the per-seller 30-day median shown as a price signal on the directory — that one is per seller address; this one is across every verified payment in the week.

Reading this number honestly

Scope. This is a tracked-catalog figure: USDC received on Base by the seller addresses our x402 Bazaar-derived catalog tracks — never “the x402 market,” never “the agent economy’s volume.” Wallets can receive USDC for reasons unrelated to x402 sales; the method removes only known exchange, fan-out, and self flows.

What “verified” means here. “Verified” is the payment-level predicate of score-v1.0.0: a payment at or above the dust floor of $0.01 cite , sender not flagged exchange, fan-out, or self, not a self-transfer. It is not the seller-level “verified tier” on the rankings; the two labels are never conflated. Methodology: verified revenue

Dust. Payments below the floor are counted and summed separately and shown beside verified — never netted out, never labeled verified. The dust figures for the same week are on How much x402 traffic is dust?

1. Every USDC transfer on Base to a tracked catalog address in the window, passed through the score-v1.0.0 verified predicate (at or above the dust floor, sender not flagged exchange/fan-out/self, not a self-transfer). Recomputed weekly from the warehouse by the frozen method; buyer flags at version flags-2026-10-13. Methodology: verified revenue
2. The prior week is the closed Monday–Sunday UTC week immediately before, by the same method and the same flags version. Comparisons print as daily rates where the quantity sums over days; distinct counts compare window to window (both seven days). A future flags bump can revise past weeks, visibly — rows are append-only.
3. Coverage at compute: all seven window days coverage-published at coverage_ratio 1.00; the window recompute reconciles to the micro with the published v_market_daily weekly sum. On-chain record observed through block 52,544,868 (2026-10-13T08:11:23.000Z); window blocks 52,184,527–52,486,926; chain-sync last success 2026-10-13T08:21:07.381Z; 2,088 tracked seller addresses, 1,292 of 1,292 tier-A complete.

Computed from on-chain USDC transfers on Base by the published method; claimed figures are never used. Full methodology · Machine-readable: /api/v1/stats/weekly/average-verified-payment · all eight: /stats (/api/v1/stats/weekly)