Over 208,000 new AI agent identities registered on Base in one week, mostly from one platform
Between 13 and 20 October 2026, 208,589 new ERC-8004 agent identities were registered on Base, raising the total from about 111,900 to 320,491. A random sample indicates that at least 98.7% of these registrations point to a single platform, Central City, which gives each agent an on-chain smart-account passport. Counted payments by registered agents since their registrations reached $33.06M, though only $17.0M of that left the agents' control and $12.2M after netting out bridged funds returning to the same address. The authors also disclosed a payment-reader bug that delayed reading some wallets for up to three weeks, which they have since fixed and are now back-filling, revising upward the count of agents qualifying for their top ranking tier. Only 3.9% of wallets paying x402 sellers on Base were bound to a registered agent identity.
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