
6.4M AI payments Only $119,947 moved bro the agent economy is still buying API crumbs That's what a 35-day sample of x402 payments in BeInCrypto's latest research shows 90.8% of those transactions were worth less than one cent The rails clearly work But moving pennies around isn't the same as trusting an AI agent with a $100K portfolio This is where @zerufinance caught my attention ZeruAI CEO Ashutosh Sahoo argues that AI agents need financial infrastructure built around them, not systems designed for humans with an AI slapped on top And I think that's the more interesting problem An agent can have a wallet It can execute trades It can even stay within its spending limit But what happens when it sends money to the wrong counterparty? Who responsible? Who decides what it can access? Who checks its behavior before it gets more capital? That's where permissioning, behavioral reputation and risk controls start to matter ZeruAI has been building wallet intelligence through zScore and its trust infrastructure That doesn't mean they've solved autonomous finance Far from it But the next big unlock for AI agents probably isn't another payment protocol It's making machines accountable enough to handle real capital Until then, 6 million transactions might just mean 6 million tiny payments Not 6 million reasons to trust an agent with your money
