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Solana just logged its biggest week yet for x402, with daily payment volume hitting an all‑time high of about $380,000 on Sunday and about 750% week‑on‑week growth.
The latest activity lifts Solana to the most active network by dollar volume for the transactions, showing how fast the AI‑agent payments narrative is turning into measurable onchain flow.
The rise of x402 payments on Solana marks a turning point for the HTTP-402-based protocol, with pay-per-request stablecoin transfers now flowing through facilitators at a pace that resembles less a speculative spike and more the early contours of machine-driven demand.
Instead of wash trading or airdrop farming, bots and agents are beginning to hit Solana for actual services.
Source: Solana
While the absolute numbers remain small compared with decentralized finance (DeFi) and trading flows, they offer a clean datapoint that real customers, and not just speculative capital, are starting to settle recurring payments on Solana.
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Solana: When real usage shows up onchain
What makes this week’s move more impressive is that x402 was built for the internet’s back end, not for humans chasing the latest token ticker.
The standard lets APIs, apps, and AI agents respond with a 402 “Payment Required” code, settle a gasless USDC (USDC) transfer on a chain like Solana under the hood, and then serve the content or compute the requester is paying for.
For Solana, becoming the busiest x402 venue strengthens the claim that low fees and high throughput are useful for machine and API micropayments, not just memecoins and high‑frequency trading.
That narrative is starting to show up elsewhere in the stack as well, from developer guides that walk through x402 integrations on Solana to new partnerships with the network, like Kalshi, which aims to push more prediction‑market flows and stablecoin activity onchain, leveraging Solana’s speed.
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X402 ecosystem expands as more teams integrate into projects
X402 is already being adopted by a growing number of teams in the Web3 space, from protocol extensions that add privacy and security layers over x402, to agent frameworks and AI platforms that use it for autonomous coordination and monetization.
Source: Mars DeFi
DeFi researcher and educator Mars DeFi commented on X, “x402 is no longer a niche curiosity. It’s showing up everywhere, unlocking revenue flows that were previously impossible without subscriptions, API keys, or credit-based billing.”
This pace and breadth of adoption is why Solana’s lead week for x402 payments matters. If the tempo holds, x402 traffic may evolve into a steady source of demand for Solana blockspace and USDC liquidity, even as other layer 1s race to their own slice of the agent‑economy rails.
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