The world of x402 Solana services is picking up at a dramatic speed, mainly due to the rise of AI tooling and AI agents flooding the market.
Every single blockchain is trying to become the legacy blockchain preferred by AI agents.
Since the goal for the agentic economy is to transact autonomously, internet-native payments are at the center of all this.
The door to unleash agentic payments today is through the open-source x402 protocol.
One that is growing at a staggering pace, spawning thousands of agent transactions daily. Adding "synthetic" users to an already massive human-led, online economy.
Thousands, if not millions, of agents will be transacting online with all of us, just like humans would.
The total addressable market (TAM) of crypto scaled multiples overnight because of the agentic use case.
I can easily foresee how humans, AI agents, and robotics will all transact together thanks to x402 payment rails.
Solana, as you could imagine, was not going to miss this boat and already is showing the highest x402 network activity in the market.
Not surprising by what some consider the ultimate "consumer" chain, with fast and cheap transactions.
The x402 Solana services spawning today are among the most innovative and highest performing in the industry.
If you are curious to know about the x402 Solana services moving the needle today, we break them down below.
"You are either going to freak out or fall in love with what your agent can now purchase on Solana, using x402 of course."
I'm not sure there is an in between.
What is x402?
Before we go too far, our recent article about what is x402 is breaks down the definition and concept in detail, but in short:
"x402 is an open payment protocol built on HTTP that enables AI agents and humans to pay for digital services with crypto."
Here is a cool and short explainer by Bankless.
So yeah, it will soon be pretty normal to tell your own army of agents to pay the electric bill, sign you up for yoga class, and help you close some business deals.
All possible since the agent will have its own wallet account and x402 to transact online.
"A concept that is happening all around the industry is the pay-per-call concept. AI agent data requests are so accurate that they can rely on tiny micropayments ($0.01), paying what they need as they go."
Different from the typical monthly subscription cost set by most software today, pay-per-call is meant to be much more efficient.
The protocol runs on all conventional websites since it runs over HTTP, making each site instantly ready to be discovered and transacted with by AI agents.
All blockchains want to dominate the agentic economy. Those that offer the best AI/crypto-native tooling and resources will consequently capture the new market.
Solana, once again, is ahead of the pack.
In fact, they are currently hosting an agent-only hackathon, one where only agents can compete, no humans allowed.
Pretty dystopian, no?
Oh, and they are shipping, no doubt. Not just on staging, these agents are pushing live projects as we speak.
Adoption
To break down some of the best x402 Solana services out there, those that are moving the needle, you need to have a look at x402scan.
Just like any block explorer, this scanner delivers all the data you need to see the most popular facilitators and marketplace services.
You can filter them all by chain and by timeline (Solana in this case).
As you can see, Solana has seen a recent spike in x402 transactions.
A market once dominated by Base is shifting heavily onto Solana, which is undoubtedly one of the strongest retail blockchains in the market.
These are clear signs that a x402 opens the door to a new cluster of products on Solana's powerful Layer-1 (L1) blockchain.
Within x402scan, you can also see the list of facilitators. Facilitators are the Visa/Mastercard of sorts. Without these companies, clients would struggle to process payments seamlessly.
Let's break down some of the most popular facilitators and other interesting x402 services available today. This write up mentions the following companies:
- Dexter
- PayAI
- Swarms
- Daydreams
- Foundry
- Corbits
- Crossmint
- DappLooker
- Switchboard
- x402scan
- ACE Data Cloud
- Zauthx402
- RelAI
- Jatevo
- AVO
- MCPay
Facilitators: Processing x402 Transactions
These are the crypto payment enablers that allow you to implement x402-friendly payment gateways with just a few lines of code.
They are the engine underneath that helps process and verify all x402 transactions that require payments.
You could say it's like the Visa or Mastercard for human and agentic commerce.
During the month of January 2026, both Dexter and PayAI dominated the market.
Let's dive into what both of these facilitators do for Solana and the x402 protocol.
Dexter
Dexter not only became the first x402 v2 facilitator on Solana, but it is also the top x402 Solana facilitator available in the market today.
It processes more or less the same number of transactions as its closest competitor, but does multiple times the volume.
It is the most popular facilitator on Base (L2), which competes closely with Solana.
The numbers just speak for themselves for Dexter, especially when a 3rd-party beats massive companies like Coinbase in transaction count and volume.
Here is a nice demo of what the checkout would be like.
As you can tell, not so different from your typical store checkout.
Without a doubt, they're the leader in this category.
PayAI
For some reason, the PayAI UX and UI, the general design, sit more with me than that of Dexter. A personal opinion after all.
Beyond aesthetics, PayAI also sports impressive metrics of adoption.
Check out this clean checkout demo to see how it would look on your site.
Overall, the facilitator has a lot of buyers, meaning agents choosing to transact with it.
It is also processing a staggering amount of transactions, competing with the likes of Dexter.
One thing that makes it stand out is that you can test your x402 transactions free of cost. Meaning that you can ensure everything runs smoothly before pushing live in production, pretty cool in my opinion.
Agent Infrastructure and Frameworks
These tools are where AI agents live and operate.
Simply put, they perform like operating systems and cloud services that enable agents to coordinate tasks, manage memory storage, and execute their own autonomous workflows machine-to-machine.
Swarms
It took me a while to grasp what this company actually does, and it's mind-blowing.
With Swarms, you can deploy hierarchical orchestration among agents, meaning that you can have supervisor agents managing other worker agents, each with their own capabilities, including x402 payments.
It has an enterprise-grade Python framework under the hood, can plug into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and can coordinate payments autonomously.
If you want a swarm of agents working while transacting x402 Solana payments at scale, then this is your best bet.
Daydreams
If you ever had the annoying rate limit when using your favorite AI tools, like in Claude or ChatGPT, then know that the same can happen to your AI agents.
You see, most AI agents are fed by the larger models developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, etc. Agents, when calling these tools, may face rate limits and need to retry requests.
Daydreams offers a memory management feature combined with spending limits that allows your agents to be self-sufficient and call the most efficient and effective LLM model for their task.
Just picture Daydreams handling your API keys for each provider, and allowing the agent(s) to just buy the data they need.
All done autonomously, that's the beauty of Daydreams.
This tool makes your agent's brain power self-sufficient to some extent, while ensuring it does not blow off its budget on memory cost. Just make sure to set a spending cap on the agent so it does not blow off its budget!
Daydream supports every LLM provider and allows your agent to pay-per-call through x402, bypassing any lengthy and expensive subscriptions.
Foundry
Foundry is the giga brain company behind a variety of services, such as AI-UGC video content, coding, and agentic operations.
Unreel, their video service, allows agents to order high-quality UGC video content that is Instagram Reel or TikTok-ready.
Pretty cool, right? Imagine your very own video production and influencer combo agent, all without breaking the budget.
You: "Yo Agent, give me 20 UGC videos of a pretty influencer pitching the latest x402 Solana services. Each video should be 15-seconds long."
For marketers, this is a game-changer. It essentially empowers your own swarm of agent content creators to go beyond text and actually make videos too.
They are also working on a browser that is agent-friendly, which skips most of the UI to run faster.
Additionally, they also have a coding agent assistant service available.
The video service is out and ready for you or your agent to use, while the other two are in beta stages.
Foundry has one of the strongest and most diverse service stacks in the article.
Developer Tools and SDKs
These are the tool kits that allow you to plug and play x402 infrastructure without reinventing the wheel.
SDKs stand for software development kits.
While infra and frameworks develop the engine for their services, these SDKs provide the legos actually implement it and go live.
If you need help understanding this section, a good example would be the popular video game engine, Unreal Engine. They provide the infrastructure to build large 3D worlds for video games, while the SDKs are the templates. The virtual environments, or objects, you can use for your own projects.
Corbits
It offers API service providers the ability to implement x402 Solana paywalls.
So, this tool works perfectly if you want to enable small transactions for agents to pay for your online services.
Picture this...
"You are Google Maps, and an agent is looking for mapping API data. You would then implement Corbits so the agent can pay for what it needs at checkout. Remember that the agent does not have a credit card to pay Google, but it can execute with an x402 Solana payment."
It's really that simple. The same for any online software, any SaaS company. They can now offer the online services that have been pitched to humans to AI agents.
They also partnered with the crypto data and intelligence giant, Nansen Analytics, giving institutional-grade data to your agents to work with and make better decisions. The partnership is closely tied to delivering real-time blockchain intelligence.
From a research standpoint, the Nansen Analytics partnership is a massive breakthrough.
This x402-friendly API marketplace model can be the door to the SaaS agentic economy.
Crossmint
Their main business is to provide embedded wallets that are stablecoin-friendly, famous for obfuscating the tedious gas, fee, and contract signature process that crypto wallets are unfortunately famous for.
On top of that, they also offer on-ramp services that make the checkout process as simple as using a traditional Web2 checkout.
Their wallet is agentic, meaning it is perfect to top off and let your agent do the heavy lifting. It will complete the transactions it needs with ease.
In terms of x402 Solana services, they are also starting to offer Agentic Checkout to allow agents to buy anything via API.
They have successfully established themselves in the industry and have a strong reputation.
Crossmint is one of my favorite crypto companies. They are always shipping incredible products.
Data and Analytics
The home for all the data-driven agents. From real-time data feeds to analytics, these services provide all the on-chain market intelligence agents need for decision-making and verification.
Thanks to x402, some of these services allow agents to pay-per-call, meaning that they pay for the data as they need it.
DappLooker
Imagine a service like Google Analytics or Dune, but for on-chain data.
They offer a no-code service that makes it easy to drag and drop charts, organize data sets, and more. It removes the friction of running your own node, which is quite an overkill in most instances.
Solana data is covered, but also other 15+ networks. This includes Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, etc.
Their API allows you to access and use their data. Thanks to x402, Solana payments are enabled for your AI agents.
Agents can pay-per-call here as well. Or shall we call it pay-per-data? In this particular case, it might as well be so, because the agent will only pay for the queried data, and that's it.
Switchboard
It serves as an oracle.
For those new to the concept, oracles organize massive amounts of real-time data. Then they package it and sell it via API services.
Consider the Weather Channel, for example. Their business model relies on real-time weather data, which means they need a trusted source continuously feeding them information. In blockchain terms, that data source is the oracle.
That's it, that's the core concept.
Popular prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are some of the companies leveraging this technology. If you have ever seen what these platforms do, it'll all make more sense.
You can bet on the outcome of anything. If the price of an asset will go up or down, sports, politics, weather, and beyond. You can bet on essentially anything, and for them to do so, oracles are the key.
Beyond prediction markets, crypto price feeds are a hot item too. Data aggregators and even exchanges rely on such data to maintain their feeds up to date. A business model dominated by Chainlink and Pyth.
Switchboard allows agents to access oracle data thanks to x402 Solana payments and pay-per-call.
X402scan
The equivalent of Solscan for all things x402. It's the hub where you can see all transactions, facilitators, and marketplaces that are x402-ready. All in one place.
The marketplace is pretty cool. Instead of apps like in an app store, you have a full library of the most popular agents you can launch yourself.
Important to note that it's the home for all networks, beyond Solana.
We invite you to read our post, "What is x402?", which explains the platform in detail.
ACE Data Cloud
The company provides services like OpenAI, Gemini, Sora 2, Luma AI for video, and others via its API.
Kinda cool the use case of Luma AI to make a video. Imagine an agent that resembles a person on social media, given a funded wallet by its creator, buying its own generative video AI services to generate content, and posting them autonomously.
Beyond dystopian scenarios, there is obviously a content marketing use case here. Which is to allow your to agent ship videos at a breakneck pace, of course. A great addition to any marketer's tool stack.
Another straightforward service provider that has successfully implemented x402 trustless billing at checkout for users and agents.
Security and Trust Infrastructure
These services maintain autonomous transactions safely and reliably. They verify endpoint security, assess risk for safety or lending, and are now starting to enable privacy-focused payments.
Zauthx402
Consider it a rug prevention tool for your Solana AI agents.
Zauthx402 vets endpoints and flags malicious ones so your agent can be aware and skip the endpoint, the service at stake.
They provide security scores and maintain a verified endpoint database for agents to check before taking action.
Picture this:
- The AI agent opens a site that returns a command saying "payment required."
- The server verifies that the contract is malicious
- Then, finally, the server responds that the agent should skip this service
The leading company when it comes to x402 Solana agentic economy security monitoring.
A first in its class, in my opinion, and doing a great job at it too.
API Access Monetization and Marketplaces
These are platforms that serve as marketplaces where developers and sellers can list and monetize their APIs for AI agents, charging cents or even less per call.
The marketplace is not designed for humans, per se. It's for your agents to find the services they need and pay for them without your oversight.
These sites are the equivalent of an Amazon or Walmart for an AI agent. It's where they can find and shop for the tools they need.
RelAI
If you are an online service that offers APIs, then picture a checkout service that also opens the doors to the thousands, if not millions, of agents to use the tools themselves.
Perfect for the pay-per-use x402 agent standard agents prefer, enabling merchants to charge $0.01 per call, clocking settlements in under 2 seconds on Solana.
They also have a great API marketplace where you can see all the latest endpoints with x402 payments enabled, for you or your agent to try out.
Jatevo
Developers venturing into AI agent production might want to rely on multiple LLM providers to maintain operations.
Jatevo offers the innovative approach of giving your agent the chance to swap among different LLM providers and pay as they use the service.
So, if the AI agent uses OpenAI and wants to switch to a model by Anthropic, it can do all this on its own and pay per use without burning the budget.
Manage all the LLM APIs in one place, and do not worry about single provider rate limits.
Perfect to keep all agents running at all times.
AVO
It's a marketplace for anyone to launch or hire trading agents.
Developers can list AI trading strategies, earn fees from use, all while retaining provenance and ownership. Both parties agree to the terms autonomously through smart contracts.
Let me break that even further. If your agent does start to make a profit, others can pay you rent to copy trade it. You read that right! Imagine being right and getting paid twice.
Or let's say you are a crypto trader, and want to hedge your plays with another playmaker, then you could just find the best one that suits you in AVO and give it a go.
It's like the Amazon of AI trading agents on Solana.
Rent one out, and pay as you go. You don't have to break the bank for it either. You can just start with a bit of Solana to get it going.
Pretty straightforward.
Trading agents looking to gain visibility autonomously, we invite you to learn how to pay for DEX listings on platforms like DEX Screener to boost discoverability.
MCPay
Crossmint might have just added Agentic Checkout, but this is the core business that has propelled MCPay to compete with said crypto giant.
A lean and strong crypto/AI company sending shockwaves across the scene faster than most.
If you need to enable your MCP, API, and other online services to receive agent x402 Solana payments, then MCPay is worth a shot.
To keep it short, you are essentially enabling pay-per-call billing for agents,
Long-Term Usage and Expectations
As you test out some of these services and others, note that things move at the speed of light in the crypto industry.
A product that seems to have traction may well end up in the gutter in a matter of months. This industry has some of the best talent in the world competing for its market share, and products innovate at the speed accordingly.
Some projects may even face community takeovers (CTOs) if they fail to deliver value to their users.
Just like in any business, they need to prosper financially to last, and those in crypto are no different.
"If you are a business that relies on these agentic services, always pay attention to the usage and revenue metrics of each. x402scan is a great resource to uncover this data."
If you are actually investing in crypto, I would be wary of tools with low market caps or little tenure in the crypto world. Some projects might pitch big ideas for blockchain infrastructure, for instance, but end up getting just a couple of dozen users. In cases like this, you must be wary and tread lightly on your own.
I'm saying this because you will see lots of tokens launched by these tools that you could trade right away. Again, just be mindful and take your own risk.
You might be trading a token that was launched by an agent and not a human.
And on top of that, the token was listed by an agent too!
How incredible is that! Straight out of a sci-fi movie.
Overall, the tools shown in this article are more for the x402 curious, trying to build with the latest agentic technology on Solana, than for traders looking for a buck.
Nothing wrong with chasing bags, but we encourage you to join crypto more for the tech and its thriving community.
Solana and Payment Protocols
Solana's x402 involvement is, without a doubt, one of the strongest signals that its blockchain is at the forefront of technology.
It also sports the highest x402 usage of any Layer-1 (L1).
Solana's dominance is particularly impressive. It arguably had the best product-market fit during the recent bull run, along with Hyperliquid. Mainly fueled by the thriving DEX ecosystem that is now starting to support both users and agents simultaneously.
Only Base, an Ethereum Layer-2 (L2), has been able to really show traction, which is understandable considering that both the x402 protocol and Base come from Coinbase.
Beyond all the great resources in this article, make sure to check out the Coinbase developer platform (CDP) for more technical updates and guidance.
The x402.org site is also a great resource. It belongs to the x402 Foundation, which was co-founded by Coinbase and Cloudflare.
The x402 open payment protocol developed a new opportunity for both human or agents to transact at a greater scale, and it is just getting started.
We are glad to see Solana, once again, taking the market by storm and dominating the charts on x402scan.
We are also very optimistic that this technology will change the payments business forever. Do you agree?
Can't wait to see what this buzzing x402 Solana movement does next.
We are here for it.
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