Weekly statistic · tracked catalog
How much x402 traffic is dust?
36.2%3 of transfers were dust: 105,5433 of 291,3923 transfers, moving $399.383 in total — beside $249,962.351 verified across 172,0671 verified payments — in the week 2026-10-05 → 2026-10-11 (Monday–Sunday UTC), computed 2026-10-13 from the on-chain record through block 52,544,8684 .
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
36.2%2 dust share this week vs 42.5%2 the prior week; 15,0782 dust transfers per day vs 19,9782 ( −24.5%2 ). Prior week: 2026-09-28 → 2026-10-04, all seven days coverage-published.
The underlying numbers
| This week | Prior week | |
|---|---|---|
| Dust transfers | 105,543 | 139,844 |
| All transfers, dust included | 291,392 | 328,883 |
| Dust share of transfers | 36.2% | 42.5% |
| Dust volume | $399.38 | $431.96 |
| Verified volume | $249,962.35 | $212,326.69 |
| Gross volume incl. dust and excluded senders (context, never verified) | $251,040.86 | $214,063.10 |
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/dust-share.
What this measures
The share of all transfers to tracked seller addresses in one closed Monday–Sunday UTC week that fell below the published dust floor, with the dust count and the dust dollars printed beside the verified count and the verified dollars for the same week. The dust figures come from the per-day rollups, which are the only place the warehouse keeps transfers below the floor; verified figures come from the transfers table under the published predicate. The gross line in the table includes dust and excluded senders — it is context, never labeled verified.
Why a whole page: a raw transaction count can look busy while typical payments stay tiny — the first Pulse issue found the busiest tracked day in five weeks was mostly dust moving about thirteen dollars. Showing dust beside verified, never netted out, is how this site keeps the two readable apart.
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 , 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?
- 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
- 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.
- Transfers below the published dust floor, counted and summed from the per-day rollups for the window; gross volume includes dust and excluded senders and is a context number, never labeled verified. Methodology: dust floor
- 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/dust-share · all eight: /stats (/api/v1/stats/weekly)