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AI agents using money on the internet — everything we publish.

Guides for builders, comparisons for allocators, statistics for analysts. Every number carries a source, a window and a date; the live panels update by the minute.

Agentic Finance Graph · Updated 2026-09-04 · 12 pages · Register for the Desk

Start here Agentic finance is software that holds a balance, proves an identity, spends under policy and leaves an audit trail — with little or no human signature per action. The pages below cover how it works, who provides the rails, what the measured numbers say, and how to run it without losing the keys.

Guides & comparisons

01 · Definition

What is agentic finance?

The 2026 working definition, the four rails, the five live behaviors, and honest sizing.

 02 · How-to

Connect an AI agent to a Web3 wallet

Identity → wallet → policy → MCP → settlement. Kits, session keys, x402, and a security checklist.

 03 · Comparison

Best agent wallet & payment providers, compared

Coinbase, Privy, Circle, Turnkey, Cloudflare, MetaMask, Alchemy and more — custody, policy, chains, rails.

 04 · Statistics

Agent payments & liveness statistics 2026

Volume, ticket size, USDC share, registrations vs working agents — every figure with window, source and caveat.

 05 · Treasury

Where AI agents park idle USDC

Yield agents, ERC-4626 vaults and regulated RWA — how to evaluate a sink for machine cash.

 06 · Security

Agent wallet security checklist

Prompt injection, god-keys, where policy is really enforced, and a 12-point operator checklist.

 07 · Analysis

Agentic commerce market size: forecasts vs measured

Gartner and McKinsey trillions against tens of millions on measurable rails — how to read the gap.

The standards, explained with data

Identity

ERC-8004

Passports without a pulse: registries, counts, and the 2.24% working-service problem.

 Policy

EIP-7702

The valet-key model: delegation in place, session keys, and the god-key flag.

 Payments

x402

HTTP 402 machine payments: the flow, the measured numbers, the vanity-volume caveat.

 Method

The L0–L9 liveness ladder

How we count agents, verify coverage, and refuse vanity numbers.

 Live

Machine-money panels

Stablecoin float, on-chain vault reads, AI-agent tokens, DeFi TVL — refreshed every visit.

 Product

The Graph

Entities, edges, views, and the API sold back to the agents over MCP and x402.

How to use this hub

  • Building an agent that holds money? Start with the wallet guide, then the security checklist.
  • Allocating or evaluating vendors? The provider comparison and the treasury guide.
  • Writing or researching? The statistics page and the methodology — cite the window and the date, not the headline.
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StartWhat is agentic finance?

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