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蓝狐|1月 04, 2026 10:58
The market's attention on x402 has decreased compared to before. However, last month's actual data is still worth noting. Considering it's still in the early stages, the numbers are pretty decent. According to BlockRunAI's statistics, the total number of transactions in December was approximately 63 million; total transaction value was around $750,000; independent buyers were about 64,000; independent sellers were about 10,000; average transaction amount was $0.12; there were over 1,100 independent projects; and there were 6 active Facilitators, including PayAI and Coinbase. x402 transactions mainly occurred on the Base network and Solana network. Additionally, in terms of pricing, 76% of service costs were ≤ $0.10; the optimal range was $0.01–$0.10 (69%). Median: $0.01. Service categories included data services (31%), AI/LLM (25%), blockchain (15%), utilities (12%), transactions (6%), search and others (5%). Some transactions were inorganic (ranking manipulation). (BlockRunAI data) Currently, x402 faces several challenges: trust issues remain unresolved, there are risks of fraud/spam behavior in the AI agent economy, and discovery is fragmented. Overall, x402 micropayments are still in a very early stage, but they are already showing signs of growth, especially in driving the development of the AI agent economy. While there are shortcomings in areas like discovery and trust, these gaps present opportunities for developers and builders. For example, regarding trust and AI agent discovery issues, the previously mentioned xgate by Dreams is also attempting to address these problems through services that rank agents, similar to machine-to-machine search and matching, helping agents dynamically discover x402 resources and ERC-8004-registered agents. ERC-8004 is also coming soon, with its identity registry (verifiable agents), reputation registry (credit accumulation), and validation registry (staking to ensure honesty), all aimed at solving trust issues in the AI agent economy.
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