Every API call paid,
every order processed,
every market verifiable.
1 Tb/s of blockspace to meet that demand.
Every HTTP request will be an onchain transaction.
AI crawlers hit sites 10,000× more than humans and generate zero ad revenue. Content creators, API providers, and inference platforms need a new model: charge per request, settle instantly, no accounts required.
The onchain protocol layer is forming:
- –Coinbase and Cloudflare built x402: a protocol that attaches a payment to every HTTP request
- –Tempo and Stripe launched the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP): a specification for agents and services to coordinate payments programmatically
The question is: what infrastructure can actually process hundreds of billions of paid requests per day?
The scale of what's coming
A single AI research task can trigger 70+ web crawls, inference calls, and database queries — each one a micropayment. Scale that to a projected 1.3B agents (Microsoft, 2028) and you get 500B+ daily paid requests, or ~5.8M sustained TPS.
Today's fastest chains do low thousands.
Why no one else can handle it
Existing chains handle simple agent-pays-once flows.
Continuous autonomous micropayments (where every API call, crawl, and inference triggers a settlement) break them. AI agents need millions of TPS as baseline load.
Celestia Fibre delivers 250M to 1.25B TPS at micropayment sizes.
The risk of not building on Celestia
On a shared chain, not only do your transaction fees subsidise someone else's validator set, but even your roadmap depends on their priorities.
When you choose Celestia, you own the chain's architecture, the sequencer, and 100% of fee revenue. Your only cost is the blockspace you actually use.
Read more about the benefits of outsourcing blockspace to a DA layer →Why Celestia for agentic payments?
Throughput. 1 Tb/s via Fibre — 250M to 1.25B TPS at micropayment sizes. The only infrastructure in the throughput class this economy demands.
Fee capture. Sovereign chains on Celestia keep 100% of sequencer revenue. At 100M TPS and $0.0001/tx, that's ~$3.15B/year in fee revenue that stays with you.
Sub-millisecond settlement. Sovereign chains on Celestia can achieve sequencer-level confirmations in under a millisecond. Agent micropayments settle at HTTP speed, so the payment never becomes the bottleneck.