AI agents are beginning to spend real money, and increasingly they’re paying in crypto.

That’s the picture from a new Chainalysis report, which found that autonomous AI agents have made more than 138 million cryptocurrency payments through x402, the Coinbase-incubated protocol that lets software pay for online services automatically.

The report, part of the blockchain analytics firm’s annual Geography of Crypto series and focused on North America’s $3 trillion crypto economy, frames “agentic commerce” as one of the sector’s fastest-emerging use cases.

The growth has been steep. Cumulative payments through x402 on…