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| By Marija Matic |
Something unprecedented is happening in the economy: Autonomous AI bots called agents are spending money on behalf of their users.
Without waiting for human approval at each step.
Over the past year, AI agents settled over $73 million across 176 million transactions on blockchain rails. The average transaction size was just 31 cents.
But those are early day numbers.
Gartner projects AI agents could intermediate $15 trillion in purchases by 2028. McKinsey sees retail agentic commerce reaching $3–$5 trillion by 2030.
For context, the entire U.S. dollar cash economy sits at roughly $10 trillion today.
The smart money is already starting to prepare.
