So AI agents have their own wallets now. Not a joke :)
Chainalysis counted more than 138 million payments made by agents from their own budgets, mostly in USDC. They pay for compute, live web data and code checking tools. Machines paying machines.
Saw it in today's ETC Journal briefing: https://etcjournal.com/2026/10/15/briefing-10-15-26-ai-agents-with-their-own-wallets/
Funny thing, all those 1960s covers were scared robots would take our jobs. Nobody drew a robot with a credit card 🤖💳
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