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ERC-8004 Commerce-Backed Reputation

Data as of 2026-11-05T22:24:43Z UTC · refreshed on every daily site build from the live ERC-8004 ReputationRegistry index (snapshot status: ok).

Every ERC-8004 ReputationRegistry feedback event on Base + Ethereum, filtered to rows that tie back to a real paid Virtuals ACP job or allowlisted ERC-8183 hook contract under our published commerce-backed definition. Of 710,900 non-revoked feedback rows across 155,895 agents, 1,003 (0.141%) pass the predicate, covering 51 unique agents. The 709,897 remaining rows are unfiltered endorsement noise (self-reports, batch-bot scorecards, drive-by attestations) — the exact wedge this dataset exists to separate out.

Per-chain breakdown

All-non-revoked feedback rows, commerce-backed rows (canonical predicate) with share, unique agents that carry any feedback, and unique agents in the commerce-backed cohort. Every number derives from the same reputation_feedback snapshot the /v1/public/stats surface and the free per-agent teaser read.

Method

Source. Our index of reputation feedback, built continuously from every FeedbackSubmitted event on the ERC-8004 ReputationRegistry across Base + Ethereum.

Registry. ERC-8004 ReputationRegistry at 0x8004BAa17C55a88189AE136b182e5fdA19dE9b63 — identical CREATE2 address on Base (eip155:8453) and Ethereum mainnet (eip155:1). One row per FeedbackSubmitted event (per-agent, per-client, per-index).

Definition. See the hub page for the plain-language version. The test is layered as:

• T1 — the row’s feedback_uri or endpoint matches a known Virtuals ACP job-URI or ACP endpoint pattern (labelled virtuals_acp).
• T3 — the row’s client_address is on the curated ERC-8183 hook / AgentCommerce contract allowlist (labelled self_deployed).
• T2 — author-is-contract is a BOOSTER only, NEVER a classifier by itself. The 2026-07 Base sweep showed batch-bot scorecard writers publish feedback from smart accounts; treating author-is-contract as commerce-backed would over-classify ~180k bot rows as commerce and destroy the differentiator.

Consistency. The count in /v1/public/stats.commerce_backed_agents and the per-agent free teaser use the same commerce-backed definition, and an automated check confirms they select the same rows.

Independent corroboration

Imperial College London’s academic study arXiv:2606.26028 (Xiong, Li, Wei, Wang, Knottenbelt, Wang; v2 2026-07-08; CC BY 4.0) concludes that the ERC-8004 ReputationRegistry “cannot function as a trust signal” in its current deployed state, and that the feedback events on it are “rarely grounded in verifiable interactions.” The commerce-backed predicate this dataset ships is the smallest empirical fix to that gap available today — a strict filter that admits only rows that reference a real paid job. The live-data reconciliation post states both framings side by side.

Limitations

• Sample vs population. Every figure on this page is a population figure over the full indexed reputation_feedback table as of the snapshot timestamp. Any sample-of-N traversal claim in adjacent blog posts (e.g. the 7-row signpost-gap traversal audit) is a sample figure and must not be blurred with the population figures here.
• Index ≠ whole chain. The indexer scans blocks continuously; a run-time drift of a few rows against a live RPC query is normal, and the exact numbers move day to day.
• Predicate is a floor, not a ceiling. An agent whose ReputationRegistry rows all reference their own custom hook contract (not on the T3 allowlist) and no Virtuals ACP job would look “not commerce-backed” here even if the underlying job was real. This dataset is a strict, conservative filter — false-negatives (real jobs missed) are more likely than false-positives.
• Row body publishes structural columns only. Agent names, capabilities, and any other re-identifiable label columns are NOT included in the row body — every published column is described in the variableMeasured[] block. Look up names via the per-agent pages linked from the hub.

Cite this dataset

Headline finding. As of 2026-11-05T22:24:43Z, 1,003 of 710,900 (0.141%) non-revoked ERC-8004 ReputationRegistry feedback rows on Base + Ethereum tie back to a real paid Virtuals ACP job or ERC-8183 hook contract under the canonical predicate, covering 51 unique agents (0.033% of the 155,895 agents that carry any feedback). The remaining 709,897 rows are unfiltered endorsement noise (self-reports, batch-bot scorecards, drive-by attestations) — a floor on the ‘anyone can write a feedback event’ problem, not a ceiling.

Citation. Onchain Agent Intel. "ERC-8004 Reviews From Paid Jobs — Base + Ethereum (commerce-backed reputation)." Snapshot 2026-11-05T22:24:43Z. https://onchainagentintel.io/commerce-backed-agents-dataset

BibTeX. Copy-paste for LaTeX / biblatex / Zotero:

@misc{ocai_commerce_backed_agents_dataset,
  author       = {{Onchain Agent Intel}},
  title        = {ERC-8004 Reviews From Paid Jobs — Base + Ethereum (commerce-backed reputation)},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {11},
  howpublished = {\url{https://onchainagentintel.io/commerce-backed-agents-dataset}},
  note         = {Snapshot: 2026-11-05T22:24:43Z. License: CC BY 4.0.},
}

License. Published under CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse, including in commercial work, provided you attribute “Onchain Agent Intel” and link back to https://onchainagentintel.io/commerce-backed-agents-dataset.

Machine-readable exports. JSON · CSV — the same numbers rendered above, refreshed on every daily rebuild.

Also useful: All datasets · Commerce-backed cohort hub · Chain-liveness dataset · Signpost-gap dataset · Base chain brief · Ethereum chain brief · Live-data reconciliation