Odaily Planet Daily reports that Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at investment management firm Franklin Templeton, stated that the AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols to facilitate micropayments between machines. Traditional card networks are unsuitable for agent-based payments due to high fees and settlement times. Sandy Kaul noted that blockchain networks such as Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain are better suited for the agent economy, as their transactions settle in seconds—faster than Visa’s 1- to 3-day settlement timeline. In a joint report by payment company Visa and investment platform Artemis, it was stated that traditional card networks designed for low-frequency human commerce cannot support AI agents, which require near-zero fees and faster settlement. Since its launch in May 2025, Coinbase’s x402 payment protocol has processed $15 million in adjusted transaction volume and over 109 million adjusted transactions.
Franklin Templeton Executive Praises AI Agents as a Key Blockchain Use Case
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Franklin Templeton’s head of digital assets, Sandy Kaul, said AI agent economies are a major use case for blockchain innovation. He highlighted Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain as examples of blockchains enabling fast, low-cost machine-to-machine payments. Traditional card networks like Visa are too slow and expensive for AI and crypto-related use cases—a view supported by a Visa-Artemis report. Coinbase’s x402 protocol has processed 109 million transactions since May 2025.
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