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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 15, 2026Published at 1:43 AM EDT · New York
AI Agents Have Made 138 Million Crypto Payments Through Coinbase's x402 Protocol, Chainalysis Says
Most payments were under 10 cents, and wallets linked to the United States account for just over 88% of tracked spending on AI models, against 0.1% for China.
Coinbase's x402 protocol, which lets AI agents pay for services with crypto over standard web requests, has handled more than 138 million cumulative payments, according to new Chainalysis research reported by Goku Crypto News. Most of those…
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AI agents paying per request will keep moving onto dollar stablecoin rails because card networks cannot serve sub-dollar payments economically, which extends dollar settlement into machine commerce, concentrated in US-hosted AI services.
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