Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison and John Collison made a shocking prediction in their 2025 annual letter: **Blockchain may need to reach 1 billion TPS (transactions per second) to truly support a future internet trading era dominated by AI Agents**.
This is not just a casual remark, but a deep insight from Stripe, one of the world's largest payment infrastructures. In 2025, Stripe processed a total transaction volume of $1.9 trillion, which is about 1.6% of the global GDP. More importantly, they observed that AI agents are rapidly evolving from 'assistive tools' to 'autonomous decision-makers'—from filling out forms and searching for preferences, to actively shopping, making payments, and even complex negotiations; AI agents are about to take over most of the internet transaction traffic.