Data covers ERC-8004 agent registrations and Agent Trust Score assessments. Week 29 = week ending Sunday, July 19, 2026.

Week 29 brought a sharp pullback in new ERC-8004 agent registrations after two unusually active weeks. 11,026 new agents registered – a 54.9% decline from Week 28’s 24,458 and the lowest weekly registration count since Week 24. The median trust score of this week’s registration cohort also fell, down 12.5% to 406, placing the typical new agent squarely in the Provisional tier. ChainAware now has 317,589 agents indexed across the ERC-8004 Identity Registry.

Week 29 Key Numbers

Week 29 Analysis

A Sharp Reversion After Two Elevated Weeks

Weeks 27 and 28 were the two highest registration weeks since tracking began – 29,577 and 24,458 new agents respectively, well above the roughly 6,000-19,000 range that characterized most weeks from W16 through W26. Week 29’s 11,026 registrations mark a return closer to that longer-run baseline rather than a continuation of the W27-W28 surge. Whether that surge reflected a genuine wave of new agent deployment or a temporary registration campaign by a smaller number of operators is not yet clear from registration counts alone – the trust score data below offers a partial answer.

Median Trust Score Also Declined

Unlike a simple reversion where volume falls but quality holds steady, Week 29’s median trust score of 406 is also down from 464 in Week 28 and 432 in Week 27 – a 12.5% week-on-week decline. All three of the most recent weeks sit in the Provisional tier (400-599), but Week 29 is the weakest of the three. This differs from Week 26, where median trust reached 644 (Trusted tier) alongside a comparatively modest 13,816 registrations – the highest median trust score recorded since tracking began.

The historical range for median weekly trust is wide: from a low of 105 in Week 8 up to 644 in Week 26. Several weeks – W07, W09, W13, W21, and W22 – recorded a median of exactly 200, the floor of the Elevated Risk tier, which is consistent with cohorts dominated by low-history or farm-flagged registrations rather than organically diverse agent deployments.

Most Agents Score Either Very Low or Very High

Weekly registration counts and median scores describe the flow of new agents. A separate, and arguably more important, picture is how trust scores are spread across all 317,589 agents currently indexed. In a healthy, evenly-distributed population, most agents would land somewhere in the middle of the scale. That is not what the data shows. Instead, agents tend to fall into one of two groups: a large cluster with very low scores, and a large cluster with very high scores – with comparatively few agents sitting in between.

On the low end, 27.5% of all indexed agents fall into the Untrusted tier – and within that group, 70,435 agents (22.2% of the entire population) score below 100, the single largest group in the whole dataset. These are typically agents flagged for suspicious patterns: fleets of agents registered together, or agents whose controlling wallet has a history of fraud.

On the high end, 21.3% of agents score in the Sovereign tier – the highest trust level ChainAware assigns – with the very top scoring band (900-1000) alone holding 42,749 agents (13.5%), the second-largest group in the dataset. These are typically agents backed by an owner wallet with a long, clean, well-established on-chain history.

In between these two extremes, the three middle tiers – Elevated Risk, Provisional, and Trusted – are each individually smaller than either the bottom or the top group, even though together they cover a much wider range of scores. In other words: it is more common for an agent to be clearly low-trust or clearly high-trust than to be somewhere in the middle.

This pattern lines up with how ChainAware’s Agent Trust Score is designed to work. Several of the checks behind the score apply sharp penalties rather than gradual ones: agents registered in large batches at the same time are flagged as likely fleets and pushed toward the bottom of the scale, and a confirmed history of fraud in an agent’s ownership chain caps the score outright, regardless of anything else. On the other end, an agent backed by an owner with an established, trustworthy track record is lifted quickly toward the top of the scale. Few agents end up stuck in the middle, because the scoring logic is built to sort agents into clear categories rather than spread them out evenly. For the full scoring methodology behind these tier boundaries, see the Agent Trust Score methodology page.

Week-on-Week Comparison: W27 – W29

2026 Weekly Registration History – W23 to W29

Note: Median trust score reflects the median Agent Trust Score of agents registered in that specific week, not the cumulative population median. Total agents indexed (317,589) reflects the full registry snapshot as of Week 29.

About This Tracker

ChainAware.ai’s weekly ERC-8004 agent tracker monitors new agent registrations on the ERC-8004 Identity Registry 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 PancakeSwap/Uniswap rug pull tracker.

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