How much do MPP buyers pay sellers?
The short answer
It remains an open question. One public register reports a small total across the MPP servers it tracks for a recent thirty-day period, and how much of that buyers paid sellers is not established.
As published in the issue
For the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), a second way for software to pay for a web request, MPPscan reported about $7,400 across 295 servers for the 30 days to 5 November. How much MPP buyers paid sellers remains an open question.
The sentence above is quoted from a published issue and is not re-written here. Its date, its population and the record behind it are below.
What we measured
One dated read of the register's own published total, attributed to the register that published it. The issue's own payment readings are of x402 payment addresses on Base.
What the evidence shows
- Sealed days behind the archive figures
- 31
- Observations in that window
- 412,533
- Issue
- Machine Commerce Reality Index: #003 — October 2026
- Published
31 days
2026-10-01 · 2026-10-02 · 2026-10-03 · 2026-10-04 · 2026-10-05 · 2026-10-06 · 2026-10-07 · 2026-10-08 · 2026-10-09 · 2026-10-10 · 2026-10-11 · 2026-10-12 · 2026-10-13 · 2026-10-14 · 2026-10-15 · 2026-10-16 · 2026-10-17 · 2026-10-18 · 2026-10-19 · 2026-10-20 · 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-22 · 2026-10-23 · 2026-10-24 · 2026-10-25 · 2026-10-26 · 2026-10-27 · 2026-10-28 · 2026-10-29 · 2026-10-30 · 2026-10-31
All 31 days behind these figures (1–31 Oct 2026) are sealed, each with its published hash on the Integrity page; each date opens that day's manifest.
What this does not say
- How much MPP buyers paid sellers remains an open question.
Method and reproduction
The runs behind the figures, the record each one produced, and the terms this question uses.
What ran, when, and the record it produced.
| What ran | When | Record hash |
|---|---|---|
| The extraction over those saved responses: each register's own trailing totals and each catalogue's own rule for listing and removal, with the excerpt each was read from, refusing a response that no longer hashes to the read. | f52d7836d0a3eef1dd0d3200f8971ca204ec3291ee4c89c924c87462d27ae981 |
The terms
The terms this question uses are defined in the glossary.
Corrections and disputes
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Corrections to this issue are on the corrections register, and this answer reads from the record rather than from a copy.