Chainalysis Report Shows AI Agents Completing 138 Million Crypto Payments
Chainalysis’s 2026 North America study counted more than 138 million x402 payments on Base made by autonomous AI agents. The activity includes software paying for services automatically, with examples such as data, code checks, and access to AI models.
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Software users and online service providers are the clearest immediate audience for this change, because Chainalysis says autonomous AI agents are already making x402 payments for services. That means some machine-driven purchases are happening today rather than remaining a future use case, and the activity is visible in the 138 million-payment count on Base.
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