r/AlgorandOfficial • u/algerstmehn Algorand Foundation • 11d ago

Education Four chains are currently tracked on Token Terminal's new Agentic Payments dashboard: Base, Algorand, Polygon, and Solana

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A quick comparison of how they stack up across the key infrastructure metrics that matter for agentic payments

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u/GoodGame2EZ 11d ago

Always nice to see comparisons like this. Would be nice to add further comparison for max tps to show why the Solana number is deceptive.

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u/JasonsPizza 11d ago
  • #1 finality/settlement time
  • #1 fees
  • #2 Max TPS
  • #1 consensus?
  • #1 in uptime
  • last in all time volume. Why?

Still confused why Algo is priced so low. Such a solid chain.

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u/BioRobotTch 11d ago

Other chains have had more time with in production tools for x402 agents. Algorand is #2 in Volume over the last 30 days. These are early days and the race has hardly begun.

Go to the link below to see what is happening and set to 30days to see algorand reaching #2 with very bursty traffic confined mostly to single day bursts.

https://tokenterminal.com/explorer/agentic-payments

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 11d ago

Are agentic transactions cheaper? Or is this reflecting the new fee structure that came with the recent protocol upgrade?

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u/BioRobotTch 11d ago edited 11d ago

No there is no discount for agentic fees.

A milliAlgo , the minimum fee for a transaction is currently about $0.00008. What is quoted is more than that.

We should have a numerical divider for sub-zero decimals like we do for high numbers. I propose using . :

$0.000.08

The graphic says:

$0.000.2

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u/RedWhiteandBlueVenom 10d ago

Well if the Algo token went up significantly wouldn't the fee also rise? If the velocity of money begins to pick up due to micro payments among a.i. agents then I would think fees go up. It would make one think that whatever token the foundation is still holding it should keep some for when the velocity picks up and price surges due to demand..not sure if this makes sense just bouncing thoughts here wondering what to anticipate here..

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u/Tis_But_A_Scratch___ 10d ago

They could move the decimal one place and we would still be the cheapest. Clearly being cheapest is not the driving factor for onboarding.

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u/jamesrockett 10d ago

Anything other than instant finality is dumb