Agentic Payments
AI-driven payment protocols enabling autonomous machine-to-machine transactions across crypto rails.
Agentic payments represent a new commerce layer where AI agents autonomously discover, evaluate, and pay for services - data, APIs, compute, inference, and tools - at machine speed without human intervention. Two open protocols lead this space: x402 (incubated by Coinbase and Cloudflare) and Machine Payments Protocol (built by Tempo and Stripe). Unlike traditional card networks with fixed ~$0.30+ transaction floors, agents generate thousands of sub-cent API calls per hour, requiring stablecoin settlement on blockchains like Base where micropayments are economically viable.
Agentic Payments
Cumulative transactions across x402 and MPP
Currency for Agentic Payments
Currency of choice across x402 and MPP
Real vs. Gamed Transactions
Genuine demand vs. wash trading across x402 and MPP
Unique Merchants Selling to Agents
Growing network of service providers accepting agent payments