- Solana says it commands two-thirds of agentic payments, as fast transactions and low costs give it an edge over other blockchain networks.
- Experts say agentic payments are crypto’s next mass-market use case after stablecoins.
Solana is dominating in the AI agents sector, processing two-thirds of all agentic payments over the past year as crypto and AI become more interconnected.
In a recent video, Solana showcased its rapidly growing AI ecosystem, which now powers AI agents across dozens of industries.
Solana Stories: The Agents Are Here
Agents are code. Crypto is code. 65% of agentic payments already run on Solana. pic.twitter.com/RmA6pzbBe9
— Solana (@solana) May 25, 2026
According to Zach Meltzer, AI agents are the realization of JARVIS, the AI system from the Iron Man movies that can talk, reason, and take actions such as booking flights. Meltzer is the founder of VeryAI, a company building a biometric proof-of-human system on the Solana network to distinguish AI systems from real humans online.
Industry leaders featured on the Solana Stories video reiterated that crypto and AI agents are a natural match. Vibhu Norby, the chief product officer at the Solana Foundation, said that agents like to use crypto, “because it’s just code, and they are code.”
Erik Leppel, the founder of the x402 internet payments standard, stated:
“Stablecoins and crypto rails are the best thing for AI to make payments, and crypto is the only truly digital native way to move money.”
x402 is a chain-agnostic standard developed by Coinbase and Google to make payments native to the internet, not an add-on through cards and APIs. It enables pay-per-use commerce via stablecoins and has been modified to require no human intervention when agents make these micropayments.
Leppel, who led the Coinbase team that developed the standard, added:
“If you were trying to design financial infrastructure for AI, from the ground up, you would probably end up with something that looks a lot like blockchain.”
Solana Shines in Agentic Payments
x402 is an open standard that can be used by any blockchain. The likes of Hedera, Algorand, MultiverseX, and Stellar have all integrated it in recent months.
However, none has been able to keep up with Solana. As we reported in March, Solana controlled 49% of all agentic payments made via x402. This share has now increased to 65%, Norby revealed, but says “there’s still a ton more to do.”
Joe Lonsdale, the founder and managing partner at venture capital firm 8VC, agrees. “The agents seem to prefer Solana just from what they see and learn,” he commented.
x402’s Leppel added:
“What’s really interesting about Solana is the ecosystem and community that they have managed to build. Now, it’s a new part of the vision where agents are going to be using to run the future of finance.”
SOL trades at $84.40, dropping 1.6% over the past 24 hours as trading volume fell 15%. It has been trading in a tight range between $82 and $88 over the past 10 days.
