The era has arrived where AI agents call APIs, purchase data, and pay for services autonomously. In 2025, stablecoin transaction volume surpassed the combined totals of Visa and Mastercard ($33T). Coinbase unveiled x402 — embedding wallets directly into the HTTP protocol. Google launched AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol) as an open standard with 60+ partners, solving the trust problem in agent payments. The agent economy is no longer a future scenario.
This hub covers agent economy infrastructure — from technical layers (stablecoins, payment protocols, trust layers) to market dynamics (data marketplaces, micropayments). Pebblous is building core data infrastructure for this ecosystem.
Pebblous's agent economy positions:
AI Agents Are Spending Money -- Stablecoins Surpass Visa, Building Payment Infrastructure for the Data Economy
With stablecoin transaction volume reaching $27.6T in 2025 and surpassing Visa, a new economy is emerging where AI agents purchase data and pay for APIs in real time.
AI Agents Pay Directly -- x402, Embedding Wallets into HTTP
Coinbase's x402 protocol -- reviving the HTTP 402 status code to enable autonomous payments by AI agents. A technical deep dive.
Google AP2 — Solving the Trust Problem in Agent Payments, and the Truth Behind the Protocol Wars
AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol) launched as an open standard with 60+ partners. A deep dive into the mandate system, cooperation with x402, and the reality of the agent payment trust layer.
[PebbloPedia] Bitcoin -- A Hot Keyword Explained in Five Difficulty Levels
The principles of blockchain and decentralized currency that underpin the agent economy. From elementary school analogies to Austrian school economics philosophy.
Pricing Data — Value Proof, Blockchain, and the Agent Economy
Data brokers $319B vs marketplaces $1.8B — a 170x gap. Deep analysis of how Pebblous's data value proof patent becomes infrastructure for the agent economy.
2026.04.11 · Deep Dive Report
Data Is an Asset Too — What Korea's Digital Asset Basic Law Changes
12 business domains, tiered regulation (3 licensed + 5 registered + 2 notified), and the intersection with agent economy. 11.13M users, KRW 87.2T market gets institutional foundation.
2026.05.06 · Deep Dive Report
When AI Spends Your Money — The Data Trust Behind Autonomous Payments
In May 2026, Robinhood shipped the first consumer credit card that lets an AI agent pay on your behalf. The bottleneck isn't model capability — it's data trust, read through what network tokens did and didn't solve.
2026.06.10 · Deep Dive Report
Key global coverage on agent economy technologies and protocols.
Google Cloud Blog · 2025.09.16
Digital Commerce 360 · 2025.09.19
The Defiant · 2026.01
Phemex · 2026.01
For AI agents to contract and transact on their own, the data behind their decisions must be trustworthy first. Pebblous works to diagnose and raise the quality of the data AI learns from. See how at DataClinic, where data-quality diagnosis, refinement, and certification come together.