{
  "name": "The AI Gold Rush Ledger",
  "url": "https://goldrush.agiscorecard.com/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-30",
  "method": {
    "tiers": {
      "verified": "primary documents or our own measured data",
      "reported": "named independent press",
      "self-reported": "traces only to the seller"
    },
    "rules": [
      "every claim carries a dated verdict and a written flip condition",
      "misses stay on the ledger",
      "no payment ever changes a verdict",
      "a 'dead' or 'no evidence' verdict describes the public evidence at the stated date, not an accusation of fraud"
    ]
  },
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "trading-agents",
      "claim": "AI trading agents make retail users money",
      "tier": "verified",
      "verdict": "no-audited-evidence",
      "asOf": "2026-08-24",
      "flip": "a vendor publishes a falsifiable live ledger showing net user outperformance after costs",
      "source": "https://agiscorecard.com/do-ai-trading-agents-work"
    },
    {
      "id": "x402",
      "claim": "Agents paying per-use (x402) is the next economy",
      "tier": "verified",
      "verdict": "dead-by-volume",
      "asOf": "2026-08",
      "flip": "sustained real (non-test) volume growth for two consecutive quarters; next recheck 2026-11",
      "source": "https://agiscorecard.com/paradigm-experiment"
    },
    {
      "id": "bai",
      "claim": "B.AI's crypto-settled model relay has 1.7M users",
      "tier": "self-reported",
      "verdict": "platform-real-figures-unverified",
      "asOf": "2026-08-23",
      "flip": "independently audited usage data from a named third party",
      "source": "https://agiscorecard.com/what-is-b-ai"
    },
    {
      "id": "pandaai",
      "claim": "AI-trading startups are the place to be (PandaAI wave)",
      "tier": "reported",
      "verdict": "funding-real-returns-unverified",
      "asOf": "2026-08-17",
      "flip": "any funded vendor publishing audited user-level returns",
      "source": "https://agiscorecard.com/zh/what-is-pandaai"
    },
    {
      "id": "boosts",
      "claim": "Small sites earn passive income from newsletter referral networks",
      "tier": "reported",
      "verdict": "arithmetic-dead-small-sites",
      "asOf": "2026-08",
      "flip": "a verified small-site case (<5k readers/mo) clearing $50/mo with its denominator published",
      "source": "https://www.beehiiv.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "copy13f",
      "claim": "Copying famous investors' 13F filings beats the market",
      "tier": "verified",
      "verdict": "split-depends-who",
      "asOf": "2026-08-16",
      "flip": "the quarterly filing-day-close recompute flips a copied book across the index line",
      "source": "https://agiscorecard.com/does-copying-13f-work"
    },
    {
      "id": "faceless-video",
      "claim": "Faceless AI video channels are passive income",
      "tier": "reported",
      "verdict": "dead-lane-policy",
      "asOf": "2026-08-28",
      "flip": "a platform policy reversal, or a verified post-2025 channel ledger with revenue and strikes shown",
      "source": "https://goldrush.agiscorecard.com/#ledger"
    },
    {
      "id": "pay-per-crawl",
      "claim": "Small sites can earn passive income charging AI crawlers to read them (pay-per-crawl)",
      "tier": "reported",
      "verdict": "not-a-small-site-income-lane-yet",
      "asOf": "2026-08-28",
      "flip": "any small independent site publishing verified crawl-payment revenue above $50/month, or a major crawler operator publishing per-site payout data showing the same",
      "source": "https://goldrush.agiscorecard.com/#ledger"
    },
    {
      "id": "our-own-protocol-economics",
      "claim": "This protocol spreads because a registry position appreciates with adoption, because early coverage is unrepeatable seniority, and because audit demand follows",
      "tier": "self-reported",
      "verdict": "No mechanism evidence — all three claims were ours, none survived review, and all three are deleted (AGIX v0.6)",
      "asOf": "2026-08-30",
      "flip": "One /claimledger.json anywhere fetched by a client this network did not write, or any documented case of a tokenless format spreading without a committed consumer",
      "source": "https://goldrush.agiscorecard.com/agix"
    }
  ],
  "archive": []
}