As of 2026, the AI agent economy has moved from concept to large-scale trading. On-chain data clearly confirms that payment demand between machines is expanding rapidly. However, most underlying public chains today can only provide basic transfer capabilities, lacking a complete, all-in-one infrastructure that supports autonomous agent trading, identity credentialing, and trusted settlement. GOAT Network precisely fills this gap. It is also currently the only complete solution in the market that deeply integrates AI agent business transaction flows with Bitcoin’s underlying settlement. Its long-term growth logic is solid, and its investment value has multiple layers of support.

By the spring of 2026, the x402 protocol’s network-wide cumulative total has completed 165 million machine-initiated payments, with a cumulative transaction volume of about $50 million. The number of active agents reached 69,000. On Base alone, Chainalysis statistics show cumulative transactions have already exceeded 100 million. The industry’s transaction structure has undergone a qualitative shift. In the early stages, transfers above $1 accounted for only 49% of total transaction value; by the beginning of 2026, this ratio rose to 95%. The share of small transactions between $0.1 and $1 shrank from 46% to 4%. Agent retention has improved fourfold within six months. Agents are no longer merely conducting sporadic test transactions, but have become commercial entities with a continued willingness to pay. In 2025, the total global stablecoin settlement amount reached $3.3 trillion. Compared with the AI agents’ cumulative transaction scale of about $50 million, the two volumes differ by six orders of magnitude—indicating that the entire track has nearly unlimited room for expansion. Multiple institutions have issued long-term scale forecasts, and Gartner pre