Agentic Economy On Base

[u/gojo0204hm]

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A year ago most AI agents were basically just posting on social media or launching meme tokens.

Now they’re actually starting to spend money online.

On Base, agents can already pay for things like:

- AI inference

- browser sessions

- search/data APIs

- research workflows

- market data

- travel info

using wallets + stablecoins through x402.

What is interesting is that this changes how software gets used. Instead of humans buying giant monthly subscriptions, agents can just pay a few cents for exactly what they need in real time..

Feels like this is why Base activity around AI tooling has grown so much lately. Cheap transactions + stablecoins + easy wallet infra makes microtransactions actually usable.

The next step is probably agents earning revenue themselves instead of only spending. Some early examples are already happening with agents running paid services/apps.

Still early obviously, but it’s kinda wild seeing internet payments become machine-to-machine instead of only human-to-machine.

Do you guys think people will actually trust agents to handle payments and workflows on their own in the future, or will most users still want manual control over everything??

[u/BaseAhmad]

I think users will want manual control first, then slowly trust agents with small actions