How much of the MPP catalogue is mounted through a gateway?
The short answer
Most of it, by the catalogue's own integration field. A large majority of the listed services, and most endpoint rows, are mounted through a small number of gateway domains.
As published in the issue
109 of 142 listed services (76.8%) are third-party gateway mounts by the catalogue's own
integrationfield, and 978 of 1,456 endpoint rows (67.2%) are mounted through the gateway domains of Orthogonal, Locus and Tempo — a statement about how the catalogue is integrated, not about economic control.
(1) The CATALOGUE population: every route listed on the two public route catalogues, combined and de-duplicated, at one stamped read on 2026-09-01 — the read the issue's route, host and service counts are quoted against, with a second complete read 93 minutes later kept as the cross-check.
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.
Why it matters
A catalogue that looks like many independent services may be a few gateways wearing many names. That matters to anyone assessing concentration, dependency or blast radius, and it is a statement about integration rather than about who controls the economics.
What we measured
We read the catalogue population on the stated September read and grouped each listed service and each endpoint row by the integration field the catalogue itself publishes and by the gateway domain it resolves to.
What the evidence shows
- Sealed days behind the archive figures
- 11
- Observations in that window
- 29,022
- Issue
- Machine Commerce Reality Index: #001 — August 2026
- Published
11 days
2026-08-21 · 2026-08-22 · 2026-08-23 · 2026-08-24 · 2026-08-25 · 2026-08-26 · 2026-08-27 · 2026-08-28 · 2026-08-29 · 2026-08-30 · 2026-08-31
All 11 days behind these figures (21–31 Aug 2026) are sealed, each with its published hash on the Integrity page; each date opens that day's manifest.
What this does not say
- The gateway split is a statement about how a catalogue is integrated, not about who controls the economics of the services in it.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| One fresh read of the second catalogue's service listing, split by that catalogue's own integration field: which services are mounted through a third party's gateway domain, and which are listed by the service itself. | 4c56c19a6605088f8cfdc3fca30095fe25ed46321f92b49d99e8c5e466133e71 |
The terms
The terms this question uses are defined in the glossary.
Corrections and disputes
This answer names a party we measure. The route to dispute a reading is on the corrections page.
Corrections to this issue are on the corrections register, and this answer reads from the record rather than from a copy.