Follow the money: reading on-chain agent payment data

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​Agent payment rails keep shipping, but real usage is much smaller than the headlines suggest. Nicolás walks through a practical method for reading on-chain agent payment data: who the actual buyers and sellers are, how to spot repeated counterparties, bot-driven volume and hackathon or test traffic, and what a believable volume number looks like. Then you pair up, pick a chain or facilitator and classify its top payers and sellers as real, bot or test. Part of the Standards block.

​Speaker

​Nicolás Arnedo Villanueva, Developer Relations

​Nicolas Arnedo is a developer relations engineer and forward deployed engineer working at the intersection of AI agents and institutional blockchain. At Ava Labs he wrote 10+ Avalanche Academy courses and worked with enterprise customers on custom chains, including the system behind FIFA's World Cup ticket resale platform. He now helps companies put AI agents into production and writes about agentic payments at nicolasarnedo.com

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