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Chandler Fang, founder of AI payments startup t54.ai, has said that the company's x402 Facilitator on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has processed more than 10 million AI agent transactions. Fang made the comments in an interview that the XRPL Foundation published on X on November 15, and the interviewer put the number of these payments at 11.7 million.
According to Fang, XRPL had almost no transactions made by AI agents three or four months before the interview, which was recorded at XRP Seoul 2026. "The entire volume got ramped up very quickly in the three months," he said.
The x402 Facilitator works as a bridge between AI agents and payments, and agents can use XRP or the RLUSD stablecoin to move money without a separate wallet setup for every agent. Fang said that more than 200 merchants are already on the network.
AI agents pay for single tasks on XRPL
According to Fang, the most common use case is paying for AI compute. Instead of paying $20 to $200 a month for an AI subscription, an agent can pay around $1 or 50 cents for a single task. "Instead, they can purchase this single compute for about $1, or 50 cents, and it can be settled on the XRPL," Fang said.
Fang said that such payments have low value and high frequency, so the high throughput and low fees of XRPL give the network an advantage. He also expects agent payments to move into real-life purchases over the next few quarters. "We have the coffee shop right outside our booth, right? And we are trying to empower users to use XRP and agent payments to finish a real-life transaction," Fang said.
t54.ai joins Mastercard program on agent payments
According to Fang, trust is the main issue for agent payments, and t54.ai's Trustline product focuses on risk management for the financial activity of AI agents. He compared the service with the chargeback feature of credit cards. "So there is no lawsuit. It is a similar experience for agents," Fang said.
t54.ai is also part of Mastercard's agentic payment program, where the startup is responsible for risk management. The x402 Facilitator processes transactions based on Mastercard Verifiable Intent, a protocol that verifies the behavior of AI agents.
Fang said that t54.ai, Ripple and Mastercard are in talks about a three-way collaboration, and the first results will be shown at an upcoming hackathon.
"The ten million transactions are just a starting point. I think next year you should expect a lot more transactions. Maybe even more transactions settled on XRPL will be done by AI agents than by humans," Fang said.