When I saw the global panel in the early morning, I stared at that number for a long time — 17 billion.

It's not the number of transactions, but the actual interactions that occur between AI agents. Has this thing really reached this scale?

I have deployed an automatic procurement robot myself. Its job is very simple: to help me find the cheapest on-chain data sources. But guess what? To complete an order, this guy asked dozens of suppliers for prices within three minutes, compared them himself, made decisions himself, and completed on-chain micro-payments himself. The whole process was done without anyone monitoring it; it was all run by machines.

What's even more outrageous is that every operation is recorded. Who called whom, how much Gas was spent, and the quality of service - it's all laid out on the chain. The core that supports the operation of this system is the PoAI consensus, which simply put, is about scoring every valid contribution: Did you provide reliable data? Confirmed. Did you complete a complex calculation? Counted towards contribution value.

This is not traffic that can be inflated by brushing numbers. Behind every number is the flowing value of real money.

Looking back now, in the beginning when we were testing, the interaction volume was just a few sporadic instances, like laboratory mice. Now? There are thousands of these "conversations" happening every second. Machines have formed their own collaborative language, without needing humans to intervene.

The impressive aspect of this ecosystem is that it has established a universal protocol for the machine economy. Just as human society requires currency and laws, AI agents also need a set of rules to determine "who did what and what they should get." This set of rules has now been successfully implemented - 17 billion interactions are the most direct proof.