AI agents need seamless payment infrastructure, and one network just made a bold bet on mandatory settlement. Every workflow on this platform routes through their native token for transactions plus gas—no optionality like Ethereum or Solana offers.

The economic design caught serious attention: Polychain Capital just anchored a $10M funding round. The testnet numbers tell their own story—35,000 participants grinding through 72,000 tasks before mainnet drops Q1 2026. Launch tokenomics? 22% circulating from day one.

The thesis is simple: when autonomous agents start executing real transactions at scale, whoever controls the payment layer wins. Building that moat early while competitors still debate token utility.