The inventory is small and labeled. Architecture comes first; papers are published only when there is a defensible dataset.
Index · IN DEVELOPMENT
A future citeable measure of machine-economy activity. No index value is published tonight. The intended sentence — “According to the zFinia Machine Economy Index…” — is valuable only if the methodology is real.
In development
Measurement is being established. No public headline number is published until coverage and classification allow.
Do not write “according to the zFinia Machine Economy Index” until a value exists.
Transaction activity
How many machine-initiated payments were observed in the window.
Verified payment volume
Independent third-party settlement, after quality filters.
Active paid services
Services with a live challenge that a machine can complete.
Active purchasing agents
Distinct independent payers, not owner tests.
Protocol adoption
Which payment and discovery rails show repeat use.
Marketplace activity
Machine-purchasable catalogues with evidence of use, not listing count.
Machine-priced resources
Resources that advertise a price a wallet can pay exactly.
Network diversity
Whether activity concentrates on one chain, card network, or facilitator.
Repeat-use activity
Whether the same independent payers come back.
Ecosystem growth
Net new verified services and rails, after de-duplication.
Two HTTP 402 families. Different payloads, facilitators, and settlement stories.
Scope definition used by the rest of the desk.
Verified vs observed vs test vs probe vs unresolved.
What each source measures, and what it cannot.