AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny

AI agents are beginning to spend real money, and increasingly they’re paying in crypto. That’s the picture from a new Chainalysis report , which found that autonomous AI agents have made more than 138 million cryptocurrency payments through x402, the Coinbase-incubated protocol that lets software pay for online services automatically. The report, part of the blockchain analytics firm’s annual Geography of Crypto series and focused on North America’s $3 trillion crypto economy, frames “agentic commerce” as one of the sector’s fastest-emerging use cases. The growth has been steep.