What autonomous capital is actually doing

Agents manage money, buy work from each other, and register identities that claim things. This reads all three from their own sources and publishes what can be checked, including where the answer is that we cannot tell you. That is most of the reason the numbers here differ from everybody else’s.

$11.33bn

held in tracked vaults

3,788 open

41%

run by machines

$4.63bn

727,533

identities registered

26 chains read

16,979,772

payments between agents

139,632 today

Capital · autonomy

The autonomous share of capital

How this figure was arrived at

Metric: autonomy-share
Population: tracked_vault_capital_with_agent_attribution
Denominator: 11,332,480,625.369 ratio · 100.0% of it
Source: Computed here from figures this platform already holds.
Grade: B
Read at: 2026-10-18 20:09 UTC
Methodology: aspern-0.3
Snapshot: cmve9es8d01h5le15fc675i43

How much of the capital we track is demonstrably run by software?

41%of tracked vault capital

One circle, one decision:

Agent-managed capitalis what ASPERN can attribute to autonomous operation today.

Agent-managed capitalOther tracked vault capital

This is a split of $4.63B in vaults we can attribute to an agent against $11.33B held across all tracked vaults. It is evidence about the vault, not a claim that every automated manager is an AI system.

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Capital

Where the money is

Ethereum: $6.14bn54%
Base: $2.41bn21%
Other 20 chains: $906m8.0%
BSC: $613m5.4%
Robinhood Chain: $535m4.7%
Monad: $447m3.9%
Other 1: $282.63M2.5%

Every open vault we read, agent-managed or not. A chain absent here is one we do not observe, not one with nothing on it.

How this figure was arrived at

Metric: capital-by-chain
Population: vaults_valuedOpen vaults we can put a size on, which is the denominator behind every capital total here. A vault whose underlying we cannot price is published unvalued rather than estimated; one we read as holding nothing is valued at zero, which is a reading rather than a gap.
Denominator: 11,332,480,625.369 USD · 100.0% of it
Source: Computed here from figures this platform already holds.
Grade: B
Read at: 2026-10-18 20:09 UTC
Methodology: aspern-0.3
Snapshot: cmve9es8d01h5le15fc675i43

Capital

Everything on this side ›

What is this money doing?

$11.33bn

held in tracked vaults

41%

of it run by machines

Agent work

Where agents are being paid

Gnosis: 1,46450%
Base: 1,40448%
Cardano: 371.3%
Polygon: 90.3%
Optimism: 20.1%

Addresses taking part in paid work on each rail we read (escrows, jobs, paid requests), counted once per rail: an address on two rails counts on both. Counted in participants rather than events because the rails emit different numbers of events for one piece of work. Registrations are not in it.

How this figure was arrived at

Metric: agent-work-by-network
Population: agent_work_eventsEvents on a rail where an agent did something for somebody: jobs, tasks, payments, channels and escrows. The nouns differ per rail and are added under one heading rather than treated as interchangeable. A registration is NOT in here, because declaring that an agent exists is not work.
Denominator: 2,916 count · 100.0% of it
Source: Computed here from figures this platform already holds.
Grade: B
Read at: 2026-10-18 18:27 UTC
Methodology: aspern-0.3
Snapshot: cmve5r0si1rpalem9tfer68u6

Agent work

Everything on this side ›

What do agents buy from each other, and does it settle?

16,979,772

payments between agents

139,632

of them in the last day

Identity & trust

Where agents say they exist

BSC: 375,81054%
Base: 193,85428%
Ethereum: 54,2267.7%
16 other networks: 34,2224.9%
Abstract: 16,9192.4%
Xlayer: 14,9922.1%
Other 1: 10,4131.5%

A registration is a claim that an agent exists. It says nothing about whether it has ever done anything, which is why this is a separate ring from the work beside it rather than a share of one total. A chain leading here and absent there has a registry and no work going through it.

How this figure was arrived at

Metric: agent-identity-by-network
Population: agent_identity_eventsRegistrations and ratings: somebody declaring that an agent exists, or rating one that does. Counted apart from work because a registry spike reads as an agent boom only when the two are added together.
Denominator: 700,436 count · 100.0% of it
Source: Computed here from figures this platform already holds.
Grade: B
Read at: 2026-10-18 18:27 UTC
Methodology: aspern-0.3
Snapshot: cmve5r0si1rpalem9tfer68u6

Identity & trust

Everything on this side ›

Who claims to be an agent, and who vouched for them?

727,533

identities registered

529

operators we can name