base's $1.25b ai token got a swiss etp yesterday. 21shares listed venc on six, physically backed $vvv. the product under it hit 500b tokens a day on oct 13, per its head of api. on oct 9 it was 320b. > erik voorhees says venice has 5 million users and more than $150m in annual revenue > venice burns vvv from subscription revenue the same day mastercard showed agent pay for machines. ai agents paying over x402, nine payments in the demo, and base as the onchain settlement network. @jessepollak quoted it with "base is for every agent." on base, agents already pay per call. > @ax1vc says its agents made 100k+ two-cent payments on base in one week, buying inference through x402 > their console 2.0 hasn't even shipped venice burns vvv on base. mastercard's pilot settled on base. the money side of ai already picked a chain.