{"name":"zFinia public market statistics","description":"Independent data, news and infrastructure intelligence tracking how autonomous agents discover, buy, sell and pay for useful things.","home":"https://www.zfinia.com/market","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology","sources":"https://www.zfinia.com/sources","machineApi":"https://api.zfinia.com","indexStatus":"IN_DEVELOPMENT","classifications":{"verified":{"id":"verified","label":"Verified","short":"Verified economic activity","definition":"Evidence supports actual third-party economic settlement — independent of the operator, not a self-transfer, and not a known test."},"observed":{"id":"observed","label":"Observed","short":"Observed activity","definition":"An event or transaction was genuinely seen, but economic independence may not yet be proven."},"estimated":{"id":"estimated","label":"Estimated","short":"Estimate","definition":"Derived transparently from defined inputs. The inputs, formula and uncertainty are published with the figure."},"reported":{"id":"reported","label":"Reported","short":"Reported","definition":"Sourced from a credible third-party statement or dataset, not independently verified by zFinia as settlement."},"unresolved":{"id":"unresolved","label":"Unresolved","short":"Unresolved","definition":"Data exists but classification cannot yet be made confidently. Unresolved is never displayed as verified."},"not_reliably_measurable":{"id":"not_reliably_measurable","label":"Not yet reliably measurable","short":"Not yet measurable","definition":"zFinia does not currently have a defensible dataset, coverage statement, or classification for this figure."},"collecting":{"id":"collecting","label":"Data collection in progress","short":"Collecting data","definition":"Measurement is being established. No public headline number is published until coverage and classification allow."}},"metrics":[{"id":"monthly-machine-spend","label":"Monthly machine spend","value":null,"display":"Data collection in progress","unit":"USD","classification":"collecting","periodStart":"2026-09-01","periodEnd":"2026-09-30","observedAt":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://www.zfinia.com/sources#zfinia-observations","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology#monthly-machine-spend","coverage":"No defensible market-wide dataset yet. zFinia will not publish a global monthly figure from its own commercial ledger, test traffic, or a single seller index.","confidence":"none — withheld","notes":"Flagship statistic. The visual slot is reserved. A number appears only when classification, period, coverage and source can travel with it.","permalink":"https://www.zfinia.com/market#monthly-machine-spend","flagship":true},{"id":"observed-machine-payment-volume","label":"Observed machine payment volume","value":null,"display":"Not yet reliably measurable","unit":"USD","classification":"not_reliably_measurable","periodStart":"2026-09-01","periodEnd":"2026-09-30","observedAt":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://www.zfinia.com/sources#zfinia-observations","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology#classifications","coverage":"Requires a documented corpus of observed settlements with protocol, network, and quality labels. That census is not yet public.","confidence":"none — withheld","notes":"An observed volume is not automatically verified economic activity.","permalink":"https://www.zfinia.com/market#observed-machine-payment-volume","flagship":true},{"id":"verified-economic-volume","label":"Verified economic volume","value":null,"display":"Not yet reliably measurable","unit":"USD","classification":"not_reliably_measurable","periodStart":"2026-09-01","periodEnd":"2026-09-30","observedAt":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://www.zfinia.com/sources#zfinia-observations","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology#economic-quality","coverage":"Verified means evidence supports independent third-party settlement. Self-activity, tests and probes are excluded. No such classified series is ready.","confidence":"none — withheld","notes":"This is the number zFinia most wants to be able to cite. It is withheld on purpose.","permalink":"https://www.zfinia.com/market#verified-economic-volume","flagship":true},{"id":"machine-transactions-observed","label":"Machine transactions observed","value":null,"display":"Not yet reliably measurable","unit":"count","classification":"not_reliably_measurable","periodStart":"2026-09-01","periodEnd":"2026-09-30","observedAt":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://www.zfinia.com/sources#zfinia-observations","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology#classifications","coverage":"No public, de-duplicated transaction census with a stated observation window.","confidence":"none — withheld","notes":"Gross observed counts without quality labels would be misleading.","permalink":"https://www.zfinia.com/market#machine-transactions-observed","flagship":true},{"id":"payment-protocols-indexed","label":"Payment protocols on the zFinia desk","value":2,"display":"2","unit":"protocols","classification":"reported","periodStart":"2025-05-06","periodEnd":"2026-09-30","observedAt":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://www.zfinia.com/protocols","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology#protocol-desk","coverage":"Count of payment-protocol records zFinia currently maintains from official public documentation. This is editorial coverage, not a census of all machine-payment rails and not market share.","confidence":"high for the desk; not a market total","notes":"Currently x402 and MPP. Wallet and discovery protocols are counted separately.","permalink":"https://www.zfinia.com/market#payment-protocols-indexed","flagship":true},{"id":"protocol-records","label":"Protocol records","value":5,"display":"5","unit":"records","classification":"reported","periodStart":"2026-09-07","periodEnd":"2026-09-30","observedAt":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://www.zfinia.com/protocols","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology#protocol-desk","coverage":"Payment, discovery, wallet and commerce interfaces with a sourced protocol page. Not an adoption ranking.","confidence":"high for the desk","notes":"Sourced from a credible third-party statement or dataset, not independently verified by zFinia as settlement.","permalink":"https://www.zfinia.com/protocols","flagship":false},{"id":"sourced-market-records","label":"Sourced market records in the archive","value":22,"display":"22","unit":"records","classification":"reported","periodStart":"2025-05-06","periodEnd":"2026-09-30","observedAt":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://www.zfinia.com/archive","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology#provenance","coverage":"Retrospective corpus of public market and standards records, excluding first-party product notices. Event dates and zFinia publication dates are different fields.","confidence":"high for the corpus; not a complete news census","notes":"This counts documents, not payments. First-party commercial notices are excluded from the count.","permalink":"https://www.zfinia.com/archive","flagship":true},{"id":"machine-economy-index","label":"zFinia Machine Economy Index","value":null,"display":"In development","unit":"index","classification":"collecting","periodStart":"2026-09-01","periodEnd":"2026-09-30","observedAt":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://www.zfinia.com/research","methodology":"https://www.zfinia.com/methodology#index","coverage":"No index value is published until inputs, weights, classification rules and revision policy are defensible.","confidence":"none — withheld","notes":"Do not write “according to the zFinia Machine Economy Index” until a value exists.","permalink":"https://www.zfinia.com/research#machine-economy-index","flagship":true}]}