U.S. Wallets Account for 88.1% of Identifiable AI Inference Payments

AI agents have completed more than 138 million transactions through x402, a payment protocol incubated by Coinbase on the Base blockchain, as U.S.-linked wallets accounted for most identifiable payments for AI model inference. U.S.-linked wallets represented 88.1% of inference payments with identifiable locations, compared with 0.1% for China-linked wallets. Those figures cover AI model inference payments, not all crypto payments related to artificial intelligence. China-linked wallets accounted for about 90% of identifiable payments for security and code-analysis services. Most of those payments went to AgentLisa, an AI platform for smart-contract auditing.