Micro-payments power autonomous AI software as onchain agentic transactions soar
Summary
Chainalysis reported more than 138 million transactions through Coinbase-incubated x402 on Base, suggesting AI agents are beginning to pay for digital services with crypto. U.S.-linked wallets accounted for 88.1% of identified AI inference payments, while Chinese-linked wallets dominated payments for security and code-analysis services. More than 87% of x402 payments were between $0.01 and $0.10; in July, the protocol processed about 75 million payments worth $24 million. Wallet funding and payment activity became more sustained and faster, though transaction counts do not prove genuine commercial demand and the figures cover only identifiable x402 activity.
