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x402 buyers

Who pays on x402 each week: how many genuine buyer wallets there are, how many come back, and how little most of them spend. Aggregates only; nobody gets named.

Genuine x402 buyers per week: new vs returning, retention cohorts, spend tiers and what each tier buys.

Data through 2026-09-27 · updates Mondays

Genuine buyers
8,176
▲ +23% WoW
New this week
4,364
53% of active
Median weekly spend
$0.0745
Pay 2+ sellers
7.0%
Buyers spending $100+
96
1.2% of buyers, 62% of USD

8,176 genuine buyers in the week of 21 Sep: 3,310 returning, 4,364 new

Distinct payer wallets with at least one demand-cleaned payment, by whether they also paid the previous week. The first week of history cannot tell new from returning.

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A median 22% of each week's new buyers buy again the next week

Share of each week's new genuine buyers who make a demand-cleaned payment 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks later. Denominator: the cohort size (second column). Cohorts start the second week of history.

New in week of New buyers +1 wk +2 wk +3 wk +4 wk
31 Aug 2026 2,018 19% 14% 11% –
7 Sep 2026 4,750 31% 29% – –
14 Sep 2026 3,246 22% – – –
21 Sep 2026 4,364 – – – –
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55% of buyers spend under $0.10 a week; the 96 spending $100+ bring 62% of the money

Genuine buyers in the week of 21 Sep grouped by their demand-cleaned spend. Denominators: 8,176 buyers, $73k.

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The median buyer spent $0.0745

Buyers by weekly demand-cleaned spend (log bins). Denominator: 8,176 buyers.

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7.0% of buyers pay two or more sellers

Buyers by distinct sellers paid in the week. Denominator: 8,176 buyers.

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Privacy. This page shows aggregates only. No buyer address is listed anywhere on the site. Buyer wallets are public on-chain, but one person or company can run many wallets and one wallet can serve many users, so "buyers" counts wallets, not customers. Treat it as a count of pockets, not people.

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