**[Stripe: Blockchain Needs to Reach 1 Billion TPS to Support the AI Agent Transaction Era]** According to Cointelegraph, Stripe co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison predicted in their annual letter that as AI agents become the main force in online transactions, blockchain transaction per second (TPS) may need to increase to one million or even one billion to bridge the infrastructure gap. They mentioned that mainstream public blockchains have previously experienced withdrawal delays of over 12 hours for Bridge users and a 35-fold surge in single transaction fees due to memecoin trading frenzies, highlighting current scalability limitations. Chainspect data shows that Internet Computer Protocol and Solana currently have actual TPS of approximately 1,196 and 1,140, with peak values of 25,621 and 5,289, and theoretical limits of only about 209,700 and 65,000 TPS, respectively. Stripe pointed out that if AI agents widely take on five levels of capabilities—form filling, searching, remembering preferences, shopping tasks, and even proactive decision-making—the future of "agent-driven e-commerce" will rely on open protocols and universal interoperability.