Agentic workflow could be crypto‘s first mass-use case. Until now, there’s not much that the average consumer actually cares about that’s necessitated blockchain tech to function, but that’s about to change. Stablecoins proved crypto can move money, but for most people they’re just digital fiat. Nobody’s paying friends or employees in USDC when Zelle or Venmo work fine. RWAs will come, but tokenizing real assets is crawling through red tape and will take years to reach daily use. Agentic payments feel different. They actually need crypto rails to exist, and the crazy part is they’re easy to implement. x402 was built directly on top of the web’s existing architecture. It uses the old “HTTP 402 Payment Required” code that every website already understands. Developers just add a small middleware package to their existing API, and the x402 SDK handles the rest; generating the payment request, verifying on-chain settlement, and retrying automatically once paid. No new blockchain language, no banking integrations, no KYC. Any agent or app that can send a web request can now also pay one. Traditional rails can’t handle this type of flow. • Visa and Mastercard charge base fees per transaction, making $0.001 or $0.01 micro payments impossible • They settle in days, not seconds • They require KYC, accounts, and intermediaries that autonomous agents don’t have Agents will transact constantly, in micro amounts, across borders, 24/7. That demands instant, permissionless settlement with near-zero fees, exactly what Base and Solana deliver. Protocols like x402 make it web-native, letting agents pay each other in USDC over HTTP, with final settlement happening on chain. Real examples: • AI agents paying $0.002 for data or compute • IoT devices buying map or weather info on demand • Agents hiring other agents to run micro tasks • Content access per view or per file, not monthly subs Those are flows that can’t exist on traditional rails. So while stablecoins made money faster and RWAs will bring assets on chain eventually, agentic workflows and micropayments might be the first blockchain use case that needs crypto and can go mainstream the fastest.