AI Agent Payments Hit 2026 High as Weekly Transfers Reach 8.7 Million

Agentic onchain payments have shown signs of a rebound over the past few weeks, with last week registering their busiest week year to date. According to the latest data from Token Terminal, there were 8.7 million x402 stablecoin transfers in the week starting August 17, which was more than double the 4.1 million recorded the week prior.

For the most part of the year, weekly counts were near 2 million and bottomed below 1 million in March. The uptick only started in June and has held since. However, despite this recent climb, the agentic payments sector is still well short of its all time highs of around 20.1 million transfers set in the week of November 17, 2025. Circle’s USDC holds the monopoly till this day but what has changed is the chains that carry the traffic.

Base Is No Longer Carrying the Entire Chart

Back in November 2025, agentic stablecoin transfers were primarily on the Base network and the entire composition was different from what it is today. USDC on Base accounted for 18.7 million of those 20.1 million transfers, which comes up to roughly 93% of every transfer within the category that week. In comparison, Solana only handled 1.3 million while Polygon barely saw 127,800 transfers.

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