Data covers ERC-8004 agent registrations and Agent Trust Score assessments. Week 42 = week ending Sunday, October 18, 2026.
Week 42 set a new record by a wide margin. 119,991 new agents registered on the ERC-8004 Identity Registry – up 1,020.8% from Week 41’s 10,706 and 3.75 times the previous weekly record of 31,979 (Week 34). Unique owner wallets rose 1,449.9% to 115,238. The median trust score of the week’s cohort held at 350, in the Elevated Risk tier.
Week 42 Key Numbers
Week 42 Analysis
A Record Week: 119,991 Registrations, More Than the Prior Five Weeks Combined
The 119,991 registrations in Week 42 are 11.2 times Week 41’s total and exceed the previous record, Week 34’s 31,979, by 3.75 times. They are also 2.4 times the 50,065 agents registered across the five weeks from Week 37 to Week 41 combined. That one week equals 18.7% of all 640,460 registrations recorded from Week 5 through Week 42. Unique owners rose to 115,238, against a previous weekly high of 27,033.
Almost One Agent Per Owner: 1.04, the Lowest Reading Tracked
Agents per owner fell to 1.04 from 1.44 in Week 41, the lowest of the 38 weeks tracked and below the previous low of 1.06 (Week 32). In other words, the surge came from a very large number of separate owner wallets, each registering roughly one agent, rather than from a few operators registering many. That is the opposite of the concentration that usually signals Sybil activity, but a flood of single-agent wallets can also be created in bulk, so owner count alone does not establish that the new registrants are independent.
Median Trust Holds at 350 Despite 11x the Volume
The weekly median trust score was 350 – unchanged from Week 41 (as currently restated) – and sits in the Elevated Risk tier (200-399). Even with 11 times the registrations, the cohort’s median did not move, which suggests the new registrants scored much like the week before. Our weekly data does not split registrations by chain, so we cannot say from it where the surge originated; our population snapshots suggest Base accounts for most of the growth, and we cover that in our Week 44 report.
Week-on-Week Comparison: W40 – W42
| Metric | W40 | W41 | W42 | W42 vs W41 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New registrations | 6,893 | 10,706 | 119,991 | +1,020.8% |
| Unique owner wallets | 4,957 | 7,435 | 115,238 | +1,449.9% |
| Agents per owner | 1.39 | 1.44 | 1.04 | -27.7% |
| Median trust score | 441 | 350 | 350 | 0.0% |
| Trust tier | Provisional | Elevated Risk | Elevated Risk | – |
2026 Weekly Registration History – W36 to W42
| Week | Registered | Unique Owners | Median Trust |
|---|---|---|---|
| W36 | 24,173 | 13,646 | 918 |
| W37 | 9,745 | 6,721 | 566 |
| W38 | 17,001 | 7,405 | 200 |
| W39 | 5,720 | 4,307 | 364 |
| W40 | 6,893 | 4,957 | 441 |
| W41 | 10,706 | 7,435 | 350 |
| W42 | 119,991 | 115,238 | 350 |
Note: Median trust score reflects the median Agent Trust Score of agents registered in that specific week, not the cumulative population median. Weekly registration and owner counts are unchanged from earlier reports, but weekly medians for earlier weeks have been restated as agents were rescored; for example, Week 41 is now 350, against the 101 shown in our Week 41 report, and Week 39 is now 364, against 465. The medians shown here are from our latest data, and comparisons use them.
About This Tracker
ChainAware.ai’s weekly ERC-8004 agent tracker monitors new agent registrations on the ERC-8004 Identity Registry, the number of unique owner wallets behind those registrations, and the median Agent Trust Score of each week’s registration cohort. Agent Trust Score is a 0-1000 score combining owner wallet fraud probability, feeder address analysis, farm detection, and criminal record checks – see the full Agent Trust Score methodology for how the model scores agents and their controlling wallets. Data is updated weekly alongside ChainAware’s rug pull tracker.