What changes when an agent pays people
Four readings from the ledger: what a payout costs the person paid, how fast it arrives, who it reaches, and how much has moved. Each is computed from settled transactions as this page loads. Where there is no reading yet, the page says so.
Lower cost
The vault pays the exact reward fixed when the job was made, and Sage pays the network fee, so nothing is taken out on the way. The team that funds the work pays no fee per payout either: plans are a flat monthly price, and Free costs nothing.
For comparison, the World Bank's latest published cost of sending $200 into the countries whose currencies Sage prices work in:
| Receiving country | Cost of sending $200 | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Dominican Republic | 2.52% | 2023 |
| Guyana | 7.92% | 2023 |
| Haiti | 4.70% | 2023 |
| Jamaica | 3.59% | 2023 |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators — SI.RMT.COST.IB.ZS, fetched 2026-09-03. The series has no reading yet for Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.
Faster settlement
The wait includes the part other payment rails don't attempt: Sage reading the work and deciding whether it is real before any money moves. Measured over 38 payouts.
Each payout's own wait: the settled transaction minus its submission, on the ledger.
Access
Anyone can sign in with an email or a wallet, do the work and be paid in USDC. Access without checking is a faucet, so refusals are part of this reading: 26 submissions refused (37% of the work judged), each with its reason. Every payout that did move was checked first, which is what makes the record under it worth reading.
Every payout adds to the person's own verified work record, which a lender can read on the lender's view. 1 advance has been drawn against verified income so far, and 1 repaid from the next verified payouts. The first, on 6 September 2026, was a rehearsal on Sage's own wallet.
Capital flow
| Network | Payouts | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| GOAT Network | 26 | $51.10 |
| Arc | 4 | $2.77 |
| Starknet | 15 | $22.61 |
Work can be priced in any of 14 currencies and is always paid in USDC, converted once at a stamped rate with its source named, so the person posting the work never does exchange arithmetic. 6 payouts priced in JMD have settled so far, $12.88 in all.
- J$ JMD
- TT$ TTD
- EC$ XCD
- Bds$ BBD
- G HTG
- RD$ DOP
- G$ GYD
- B$ BSD
- BZ$ BZD
- SRD SRD
- C$ CAD
- £ GBP
- € EUR
Computed 2026-10-20 14:32 UTC from the settled transactions the ledger lists. No figure on this page is typed into the copy; the arithmetic is in one readable module.
See what it means for one region in Sage in the Caribbean, or how a record of verified work is built.