Solana Foundation exec predicts AI agents will drive 99% of onchain sales in 2 years
It’s 2026 and we’re already seeing AI agents transform from passive assistants to active task makers.
Your next trade may come from a bot, not your click, according to Vibhu Norby, who leads product strategy and AI acquisitions at the Solana Foundation.
“99.99% of all onchain transactions in 2 years will be driven by agents, bots, and LLM-based wallets and trading products,” Norby wrote on X Wednesday. The UI disappears from the language.”
At Solana, AI agents are already making millions of transactions, especially for small pay-per-view digital services. This highlights the shift to automated, structured payments in a consumption-based digital economy, according to Norby.
“Since 2026, Solana is now 65% of all agent payments through x402 at least,” Norby said at the Digital Asset conference in New York this week. “We’re very focused on this because I think it’s a new thing in the world where I can pay for each service instead of bundling this into a subscription or one payment for something.”
Infrastructure and developer tools
Norby’s team is building the infrastructure to accelerate this change.
In early February 2026, he put together a new product team tasked with creating AI-friendly interfaces for both companies and everyday users.
That effort produced the Solana Developer Platform, a series of APIs that include payments, token assets, and compliance tools aimed at financial institutions such as MasterCard and Western Union, both of which have begun integration with the platform.
Solana was the first blockchain to put a machine-readable skill file at the root of its website, a technical detail Norby highlighted at the conference, so that AI agents can independently learn how to create wallets, make transactions, and interact with on-chain systems without human intervention.
Fast rise
Besides the Solana Foundation, the ecosystem of agent development agencies is growing.
ElizaOS, an open source toolkit for building on-chain AI agents, has attracted more than 17,600 stars on GitHub, making it one of the most popular repositories at the intersection of crypto and AI.
The Virtuals Protocol ecosystem reported 1.78 million jobs completed by private agents as of February 2026.
At Coinbase, the foundation of AI has been laid for some time. From AgentKit allowing AI to automatically interact with the blockchain, to x402 enabling instant stablecoin payments, the company has been busy preparing for the future of AI in crypto.
Like Norby, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong also believes that transactions can be handled faster by AI agents than humans.
Soon there will be more AI agents than humans doing transactions.
They cannot open a bank account, but they can have a crypto wallet. Think about it.
– Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) March 9, 2026
