AI agents are on a shopping spree: Total payments on Base blockchain eclipse 138 million, Chainalysis finds

The field of agentic commerce , which describes the use of AI agents to carry out Internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom. That’s according to a new report by the blockchain analytics platform Chainalysis, which found developers are increasingly giving AI agents their own budgets to buy the computing power, live web data, and code tools they need to complete tasks. The growth of agentic commerce over the past 15 months has been steep.