Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M+ in Q3 2026; 87%+ of the payments were for less than 10 cents
THE SO WHAT
138M+ mostly sub–10 cent transactions on Base in a year shows agentic commerce is real at machine scale, not a demo. If you sell digital goods or run APIs, start designing SKUs, pricing, and rate limits for autonomous agents making millions of micro-purchases, not humans clicking checkout.
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