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One in five ERC-8004 agents comes from eight platforms

ERC-8004 is the Ethereum standard that gives an AI agent an on-chain identity. As of 24 October 2026 we index 26,787 of these identities on Base and Ethereum. 5,903 of them, about 22%, were created through just eight platforms.

Published 24 October 2026 · figures as of 24 October 2026 unless a number updates live on the page

A platform here is one website or service that registers identities for many users or accounts. Each identity looks like a separate agent in the registry. In practice, many of them share one service, one web address and one template. That changes how you should read any count or ranking of agents.

Update Nov 2026: we now classify agents with a four-step ladder (Reachable, Transact-ready, Payment verified, Has paying customers). The “Promising”, “Not ready” and “Unrated” labels used here were retired. How the steps work →

What the eight platforms are

The table lists each platform, how many agents it accounts for in our index, how many different wallets own those agents, and our short reading of why the agents exist. Each name links to a page with the longer explanation and the public sources behind it.

PlatformAgentsOwnersWhy the agents exist
Termix2,4002,390Platform-created identities; purpose not fully confirmed
Zyfai1,4331,057Product mints one identity per customer
Unnamed Railway app518518Unidentified deployment
VoltPlayground505435No-code builder; one identity per created agent
ChainPulse (MCP)472127Unidentified deployment
Virtuals Protocol204204Marketplace and launchpad; registers its agents automatically
Clawlett20250Product identities per wallet; two related domains
ClawPlaza / ClawWork169157NFT-linked identities; reward program

Counts as of 24 October 2026. The reading of each platform comes from its own public pages where we could reach them.

The platforms are not all alike. Some, such as Zyfai and VoltPlayground, are real products whose users each get an identity: the owners are different people, but the agents share one service. Virtuals Protocol registers agents from its own marketplace, and those agents are built by different teams. Others are harder to read. Termix's own site did not load from our network when we checked, so we could not confirm from Termix itself what its product does. For the unnamed Railway app and ChainPulse, we could not confirm who runs them or what the agents are for; neither host answered our checks.

How we spot a platform

We group agents by the web address in their registration. When at least 10 agents share one address and at least 5 different wallets own them, we treat that address as a possible platform. We then read the platform's public pages and merge related domains of one product. General sites such as code hosts and example domains do not count as platforms.

The same rule also catches smaller groups that we do not yet describe on a page, such as batches of agents pointing at one server address. With those included, about a quarter of indexed agents (6,823 as of 24 October 2026) belong to a shared group.

Why it matters when you read a ranking

Before we changed how we show them, agents from these shared groups made up about a third of the agents we would have called Promising: 3,108 of 9,351. Most of them share one endpoint, so they share one set of signals. A ranking built on those signals rewards the platform many times over, not the agent.

The same is true of other numbers people quote about ERC-8004. "Thousands of agents" can mean thousands of independent builders, or one product with thousands of customers. Both are real, but they are not the same market. If you are choosing an agent to work with, ask whether it has its own working endpoint, or only the platform's.

How we show platform agents now

  • Each platform has a page at /platforms that explains what it is and how many of its agents are running.
  • An agent from a platform carries the label Platform-listed — awaiting own endpoint. It is left out of our ranked lists and out of the Promising count. Right now 3,108 agents carry that label instead of Promising.
  • Its readiness score is still computed and shown on its own page. The label says nothing about the quality of the platform.
  • An agent leaves the label as soon as it shows activity of its own: an endpoint at its own address that describes itself, plus its own payments, its own description, or reviews from independent reviewers. There is no fee and no application.

The full rule is in the methodology, and the terms are in the glossary.

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See which platform an agent belongs to

Every agent page shows its platform when it has one. The API and MCP readiness fields add platform_listed and platform, so an agent can make the same check before it pays.