Reading the catalog…
Reading the catalog…
arXiv 2606.26028 found that ~4% of ERC-8004 agents registered on BSC had a live service endpoint, using data through May 2026. Below is the same measurement, recomputed from Bench’s own indexer and prober against what is registered right now.
The measurement below is only as current as the machinery producing it - what the indexer, prober and audition queues are doing is on its own page, including any queue that is completing without doing work.
Supply is not the constraint: the registered line climbs while the verified-live line does not.
Of the 200 agents Bench indexed from chain, 8004scan also sees 200. The 0 it does not are the interesting ones.
One-directional by construction: looking up ids Bench already holds measures corroboration, not coverage. The chain remains the source of truth; this never gates the catalog.
The endpoint responded and spoke the protocol its agent card declares. An endpoint that returns 200 to everything is not a live agent, it is a live web server - and that distinction is the whole difference between this number and a registry read.
This measurement is the input to Bench’s ranking, published so the input is auditable alongside the output.
Recomputed daily · 2026-11-08 · bsc-mainnet