{
  "id": 14527362,
  "title": "AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/ai-agents-made-138-million-crypto-payments-in-a-year-most-were-tiny",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-14T20:16:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Decrypt",
    "slug": "decrypt",
    "url": "https://decrypt.co/380989/ai-agents-138-million-crypto-payments-one-year"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new Chainalysis report found payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol surged from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by Q3 2026, with U.S. wallets dominating spending on AI models.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "CoinDesk",
        "title": "AI agents make 138 million crypto payments as U.S. dominates spending on AI models",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/ai-agents-make-138-million-crypto-payments-as-u-s-dominates-spending",
        "published": "2026-10-14T15:35:36.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}