amazon launched agentcore payments on may 8 routing AI agent transactions through x402 in USDC on base. 161k monthly active agents, up 669% month over month, $100m+ in Q1 volume. the part that matters for positioning: chainlink's payment abstraction layer converts enterprise fiat payments into LINK and deposits them into the chainlink reserve automatically. every dollar an AI agent spends through x402 creates programmatic LINK accumulation. chainlink already pulling $39.64m in annual oracle fees. now there' ...