Solana Foundation: 15 million on-chain AI agent payments have been processed, and stablecoins are becoming the default settlement tool

According to CoinDesk, Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer of the Solana Foundation, stated at the New York Digital Assets Summit (DAS) that the Solana network has processed 15,000,000 on-chain payments from AI agents, primarily for machine-to-machine commercial interactions, with stablecoins becoming the default settlement tool for AI agents' payment computing power and services.

Norby pointed out that the programmable nature of AI agent payments gives it a unique advantage in the crypto payment landscape and believes this trend will fundamentally change the monetization model of the internet, supporting micropayments billed by usage down to fractions of a cent, which traditional payment rails cannot achieve. Norby stated that when AI agents choose a crypto payment method, Solana typically ranks highly.

He anticipates that in the future, 95% to 99% of crypto transactions will be initiated by large language models (LLM), and the primary way users will interact with crypto networks will shift to being completed through AI agents.