Chainalysis: AI Agents Complete 138 Million Crypto Payments, US Wallets Account for 88.1%

A report released by Chainalysis reveals that AI agents have completed over 138 million transactions through the x402 payment protocol incubated on the Base blockchain via Coinbase, primarily for purchasing data, computing power, and access to AI models. In geographically identifiable AI model inference payments, US wallets account for 88.1%, while Chinese wallets only make up 0.1%. Research director Eric Jardine points out that Chinese developers tend to use open-weight models, reducing the demand for pay-per-use inference services. Chinese-associated wallets account for about 90% of payments for security and code analysis services, with most flowing to the AI smart contract auditing platform AgentLisa. Jardine emphasizes that this gap should not be interpreted as open-source AI weakening the on-chain inference market in Asia. Currently, payment giants like Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe have supported the x402 protocol, and Coinbase has also begun allowing enterprise clients to accept payments from AI agents.

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