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title: "AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really"
url: https://thecoingazette.com/ai-agents-spending-money-online-new-research-says-not-really/
date: 2026-09-13
modified: 2026-09-13
lang: en
author: "Coin Gazette Editorial"
description: "TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says."
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
word_count: 23
---

# AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really

TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says.