The Next Billion Blockchain Users Will Not Be Human

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-next-billion-blockchain-users-will-not-be-human. x402 has already cleared 100 million agentic payments. Venom CEO Christopher Louis Tsu on what a network built for machine customers needs. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #ai, #blockchain, #ai-agents, #blockchain-adoption, #x402-foundation, #stablecoin-payments, #account-abstraction, and more. This story was written by: @louistsu. Learn more about this writer by checking @louistsu's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. AI agents are becoming the largest customer class in crypto. x402 has passed 100 million agentic transactions on Base, and the Linux Foundation's x402 Foundation now seats Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and AWS. Agents cannot be marketed to: they compare finality, fees and reliability, then execute in milliseconds. Winning this traffic requires sub-second finality, sub-cent fees, parallel execution and account abstraction at the protocol level.