AI agent payment volume fell 94.5% in 11 months… 68.3 million cases in Q3
Original headlineAI 에이전트 결제액 11개월 새 94.5% 감소…3분기 6830만건
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Monthly x402 payment volume for AI agent transactions fell 94.5% from its November 2025 peak to October 2026, dropping from $29 million to $1.59 million, according to Token Terminal data cited by Crypto Briefing. The protocol lets software automatically settle small payments on-chain for data queries and developer API calls when a site or service demands a fee. The third quarter recorded 68.3 million payments, but the aggregate figure should not be read as purely autonomous AI purchases of goods and services. The collapse matters because x402 is a leading test of whether agents can transact on-chain at scale, and the decline suggests machine payments remain far from mainstream. What to watch next is whether volumes stabilize as more services adopt the standard and whether address-level data can distinguish genuine agent activity from human users.
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