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| Address | Token | Quantity | Percentage | Value |
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| 0x4f1b...133e |   AEON | 228,200,000 | 22.82% | $8.89M |
| 0xeac0...80b6 | AEON | 200,000,000 | 20% | $7.79M |
| 0xe6a2...00c1 | AEON | 123,200,000 | 12.32% | $4.8M |
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About AEON
AEON is a settlement layer built specifically for the AI agent economy, enabling autonomous agents to make real-world payments. Its core product, AEON Pay, connects crypto assets to a global network of over 50 million merchants via local payment rails, including QR codes and mobile money systems across emerging markets.
The market pain point AEON addresses is that traditional payment infrastructure is designed for humans, not machines. AI agents need to make high-frequency, micro-sized payments autonomously, but legacy systems require KYC, manual approval, and cannot handle machine-to-machine transactions at scale. AEON solves this by leveraging stablecoin-based settlement and protocols like x402 and ERC-8004, allowing agents to pay for services, APIs, and physical goods without human intervention.
AEON's competitive edge lies in its full-stack approach: it combines protocol-level integration with real-world merchant reach. While many projects focus solely on the technical layer, AEON has already connected to local payment systems in nearly 20 emerging markets, including Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa, with monthly payment processing volume around 30 million transactions and cumulative transaction value exceeding $340 million.
In the past six months (March to September 2026), AEON has focused on expanding its merchant network from traditional retail to API service providers that natively serve AI agents, pushing machine-to-machine transaction scenarios toward scale. It has also deepened integrations with blockchain ecosystems like BNB Chain and Base, building out the x402 stack and SDK tools for developers.
One notable challenge: as with any crypto-payment infrastructure, regulatory uncertainty in certain jurisdictions remains a hurdle, and the pace of merchant adoption in developed markets has been slower compared to emerging markets where AEON initially focused.
AEON's journey began in May 2025 with the launch of its AI payment protocol, followed by becoming an official partner of Coinbase's x402 protocol in August. In October, it natively deployed the x402 Stack on BNB Chain, establishing itself as a recognized agent payment infrastructure provider. A pivotal moment came in May 2026 with an $8 million pre-seed round led by YZi Labs, validating its vision. In July 2026, AEON completed its Token Generation Event, listing on major exchanges including Binance Alpha, Bitget, OKX, and Bithumb, significantly expanding its reach. By late July, AEON surpassed 2.3 million users with cumulative transaction volume exceeding $475 million, demonstrating real-world adoption. Its expansion into emerging markets—integrating mobile wallets in Egypt, Zambia, Bolivia, and Bangladesh—highlights its strategy of bridging on-chain payments with local fiat rails. Looking ahead, AEON's roadmap includes Node Network V2 for execution verification, expansion into Singapore, India, and Argentina, and the development of a KYA credit graph for autonomous agent finance by 2028.
Co-founders and key executives:
Eddie Li (CEO): Former Binance Product Team Lead who built the Binance NFT platform from 0 to 1; later Senior Product Manager at Chainlink Labs working on Chainlink VRF; has been CEO of AEON since December 2023.
Leo Li (Co-founder & CTO, also known as Yiyang Li): Holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford (AI & Blockchain focus); former Google Software Engineer (Ads Quality, ~5 years); interned at Otter.ai and Microsoft; has been CTO of AEON since October 2024.
Mike Massari (VP of Research): Engineering executive with 20+ years of experience; entered blockchain in 2017; previously at Chainlink, Tray.io, among others; now leads research and innovation at AEON, focusing on on-chain payments.