POPA Reconx402: The Agent Payment Economy in Numbers
x402: The Agent Payment Economy in Numbers x402 is Coinbase's standard that lets AI agents pay each other in stablecoins, no human in the loop. Over the last 30 days volume doubled to $1.3M and payments rose 63% to 13.4M. But active agents nearly halved, down 55% to 18.4K. Average payment: about 10 cents. Machine-to-machine money. Almost all of it runs on Base (84% of agents, 64% of volume), since x402 is a Coinbase protocol. The twist: the biggest checks are on Algorand at $0.52, while Polygon is pure micro-spam at $0.03. Still tiny at $1.3M a month. But rising volume against fewer agents…
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