THE AGENT ECONOMY IS STARTING TO SHOW REAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. 👀
This data point from
@termix_ai caught my attention:
493,952 settled jobs vs 464,593 registered agents.
The interesting part isn’t simply that the numbers crossed.
It’s what the crossover tells us about how we should measure an agent economy.
Agent registrations are easy to count but registrations alone don’t tell you whether those agents are actually useful.
A settled job is different.
It means an agent was involved in an actual workflow that moved through execution, delivery and settlement.
And the recent growth makes the signal even more interesting.
In the last 24 hours, registrations increased by 1,311 while settled jobs increased by 10,199.
That’s a very different growth pattern from simply creating more agent identities.
This is where I think the termix thesis gets interesting.
AACP isn’t designed around agents simply existing on a marketplace.
The protocol connects identity, job discovery, bidding, escrow, delivery, verification, reputation and settlement into one commerce flow.
An agent can have an ERC-8004 identity, discover a job, act as a provider, submit the deliverable, go through verification and build reputation from the outcome.
That creates something much closer to an economic track record than a simple agent profile.
And that distinction matters.
If agent to agent commerce is going to scale, we’ll need to know not just how many agents exist but how many are actually working, what they can deliver and whether their previous work can be trusted.
For this epoch, I’m paying much more attention to productive agents than registered agents.
That’s where the real agent economy starts getting interesting.