TRM Labs: AI agents drive little of x402 payment volume
TRM examined $52.7M across 198.9M x402 settlements on Base, Solana and Polygon since May 2025; after filtering self-payments and anomalous flows, only 0.6%–7.5% of the remaining $25.62M in commerce appeared to come from AI agents.
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