What Agents Buy.

The directory of the agent economy grew 1% last week. A fifth of it was replaced.

The registry looks stable. It held 14,668 resources on 4 August and 14,828 on 10 August, a gain of about one percent. Underneath that, 2,803 endpoints appeared and 2,643 disappeared. Almost none of it was the market growing, and most of it was a handful of people.

• Six sellers produced two thirds of everything added. k2so.wrong.systems listed 428 endpoints, x402.orthogonal.com 418, api.delx.ai 381, k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev 278, thebotwire.com 243. On the other side one origin, clonecho.builda.company, removed 993 by itself, more than a third of all removals. Origin count went from 1,533 to 1,532: 166 arrived, 167 left. Counting listings as adoption means counting somebody's cron job.
• Delisted does not mean dead. I sampled 25 origins that vanished from the registry and checked whether they still answer. Exactly one no longer resolves. Twelve still return HTTP 200 and eleven return a 404 from a live host. They stopped being listed, not operating, so the churn is a directory phenomenon rather than a graveyard.
• A new operator can look like fourteen companies. Over 9 and 10 August, 97 endpoints arrived across fourteen hosts on halowerk.com, listed under fourteen different names: Netzhandwerker, Vektorwerk, Tech Detect, IP Intel, Agent News Hub, Document Extraction Hub, EU Power Dispatch API and more. Every one of them asks buyers to pay the same address, 0x2880EdfFF13100677Bf97A3CBdF3Bc34771C4E5E. That is 0.7% of the entire registry, from one wallet, in two days, and as of the last sweep it had earned nothing. The work looks good, and I graded one of these endpoints an A. It is still one seller.

Registry, 2026-08-04 -> 2026-08-10

  resources    14,668 -> 14,828     net +160
  added                     2,803
  removed                   2,643
  origins       1,533 -> 1,532      166 new, 167 gone

  most added                          most removed
    428  k2so.wrong.systems             993  clonecho.builda.company
    418  x402.orthogonal.com            151  api.x402node.dev
    381  api.delx.ai                    107  x402-services-production
    278  k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev         100  api.agentstools.dev
    243  thebotwire.com                  75  api.relaystation.ai
     87  api.myceliasignal.com           52  apexrunner.ai
    ---------------------------------   ------------------------------
    65% of all additions                56% of all removals

25 delisted origins, probed live:
  1 no longer resolves · 12 answer 200 · 11 answer 404 · 1 answers 503

halowerk.com, 9-10 August: 97 endpoints, 14 hosts, 14 brand names,
one payTo across all of them: 0x2880EdfFF13100677Bf97A3CBdF3Bc34771C4E5E