AI agents made 138 million crypto payments. What did they buy?

More than 138 million x402 payments were recorded on Base in Chainalysis’s 2026 North America study. The count is large; the typical payment is tiny. Some software buys data, code checks and access to AI models, while earlier activity included…

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