According to @PANewsCN, interest in the x402 protocol has cooled slightly, but it is opening a new application-layer growth track with multi-chain participation across Base, BNB Chain (BNB), and Solana (SOL), and active categories spanning payments, AI, and meme projects (source: @PANewsCN on X, Oct 28, 2025). For traders, the provided ecosystem map highlights x402 project distribution across these chains, indicating breadth across payments, AI, and meme verticals to prioritize in watchlists and on-chain discovery (source: @PANewsCN on X, Oct 28, 2025).

According to the source, an X post on Oct 28, 2025 claims AI agents are moving closer to controlling crypto wallets via Coinbase’s Payments MCP, enabling wallet access and payments through an x402 protocol, raising immediate safety questions for market participants (source: X post dated Oct 28, 2025). For risk management, traders should note that robust permissioning, key custody, and policy-based transaction controls are critical, while delegated or agent-held signing keys increase the attack surface versus hardware wallets, multisig safes, and account abstraction safeguards documented by leading wallet standards (source: Coinbase Wallet developer documentation; source: Ethereum EIP-4337 specification; source: Safe (Gnosis Safe) documentation). From a trading perspective, treat the claim as unconfirmed until Coinbase publishes official documentation for Payments MCP and x402 detailing scopes, rate limits, and approval flows, and defer strategy assumptions about automated order flow or on-chain volumes driven by AI agents until such docs and SDKs are released (source: Coinbase developer documentation index as of Oct 2024; source: X post dated Oct 28, 2025). If production tooling ships, monitor for changes in transaction counts on Ethereum and Base, because higher competition for block space mechanically pressures gas fees during congestion and can influence ETH-denominated costs for on-chain execution (source: Ethereum gas and fee mechanics documentation; source: Base network documentation).

According to @hyperbolic_labs, the x402 demo demonstrates an AI agent autonomously funding its own inference through a self-reflexive payment loop using the x402 protocol. The setup integrates a proxy server routing to a Serverless Inference API, while a script sends requests with x402 payment headers, enabling seamless machine-to-machine crypto transactions. This development highlights a practical use case for integrating cryptocurrency micropayments into AI workflows, potentially increasing demand for blockchain-based payment solutions within the AI sector (Source: @hyperbolic_labs, May 6, 2025). Crypto traders should monitor related tokens and protocols for increased adoption and utility as decentralized AI infrastructure expands.