A16z: AI Agent's payment volume is far lower than the reported data, but infrastructure construction is accelerating Odaily Planet Daily News: Noah Levine, partner of a16z, stated in an article on X platform that a previous Bloomberg article cited x402.org data stating that AI agents completed $24 million in payments within 30 days. However, Allium Labs data shows that the transaction volume of AI agents during the same period was about $3 million, and after excluding volume boosting transactions, the actual amount was about $1.6 million. Levine stated that currently, AI payment activities are mainly focused on the field of developer tools, including web scraping platform Firewrawl, AI browser Browserbase, and AI image platform Freepik. Companies such as Stripe, Cloudflare, and Vercel have integrated the payment standard x402 developed by Coinbase, and Google has also embedded the system into its proxy payment protocol. Levine stated that the transaction volume of $1.6 million is not large, but the infrastructure built around it is substantial, and these companies are betting on the market prospects after AI agents become default buyers. In addition, Coinbase announced the addition of support for Polygon in its x402 facilitator, allowing developers to accept USDC payments on Polygon, Base, and Solana. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that the trading volume of AI agents will soon surpass that of humans.