Solana Foundation: Has Processed 15 Million On-Chain AI Payments, Stablecoin Emerging as Default Settlement Tool

BlockBeats News, March 26th. Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer of the Solana Foundation, stated at the New York Digital Asset Summit (DAS) that the Solana network has processed 15 million on-chain payments from AI agents, mainly used for machine-to-machine commercial interactions, with stablecoins emerging as the default settlement tool for AI agent compute and service payments.

Norby pointed out that the programmable nature of AI agent payments gives them a unique advantage in the crypto payment space, and he believes this trend will fundamentally change the commercial monetization model of the Internet, supporting microtransactions as low as fractions of a cent billed based on usage, something traditional payment rails cannot achieve. When AI agents choose a crypto payment method, Solana often ranks highly. It is expected that in the future, 95% to 99% of crypto transactions will be initiated by large language models, and the primary way users interact with crypto networks will shift to being done through AI agents.