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Algorand ranks top 2 by weekly volume on Token Terminal's agentic payments dashboard

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Token Terminal's new agentic payments dashboard places Algorand as a top 2 chain by weekly volume for x402, the agentic payments protocol running on the network. The ranking was announced by the Algorand account on 5 August 2026, and the Algo Foundation restated it the following morning.

x402 is the agentic payments protocol used on Algorand. The Algorand account noted that volume is still building, framing the current position as early progress rather than a final state.

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