ARK Invest researcher Lorenzo Valente stated that Cloudflare's earnings call revealed a 1,700% year-over-year increase in AI agent requests on its network, with non-human traffic surpassing 50% of total network traffic for the first time this quarter. If the current trend continues, non-human traffic could reach 1,000 times human traffic in five years. Cloudflare processes about 500 million requests per second, and it's estimated that 1% to 10% of these could be monetized through micro or nano transactions, corresponding to an initial demand of around 10 million TPS and potentially up to 100 million TPS in the future. For comparison, Visa's peak is only about 20,000 TPS. Valente believes that pay-per-request models for AI agents will require settlement layers to scale processing capabilities by several orders of magnitude beyond current networks. Assuming 10 million TPS and $0.001 per transaction, L1 networks could generate approximately $315 billion annually in base fees alone, making stablecoins and cryptocurrencies the ultimate financial form for AI agents. https://(wublock123.com)/news/ark-invest-researcher-stablecoins-crypto-ai-agent-finance-66147