x402 from zero

Virtuals Protocol

A Base launchpad for tokenised AI agents that grew into an agent-commerce stack, with x402 as one optional payment rail.

Checked 11 October

Our view

The best-resourced framework project, with protocol revenue of $188.6K in September 2026 (DefiLlama) and frequent releases. x402 through its agent-jobs system settled $4.34M over 1.99M transactions in total, then fell about 99% after April 2026, when a rewrite left x402 out of the new SDK. Treat x402 as a side rail here.

Facts

Role
x402 rail inside its agent-jobs system (ACP)
How serious
Serious builder
Momentum
Steady
Trend-hopping
3 of 5
Funding
A $16M seed is claimed by aggregators but unconfirmed; 35% of supply sits in a DAO treasury
On Base
Base is its main network
How often we check
Every week
Has a token
VIRTUAL, on Base

What these ratings mean

In numbers

about $28

paid to Virtuals Protocol on Base in the 30 days to 14 October.

2,791

payments in those 30 days, about $0.01 each on average.

51

commits to its public code in the 30 days to 14 October.

Payments from x402scan, code from Virtual-Protocol/acp-cli and 3 more repositories on GitHub. As of 14 October 2026.

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