AEON, the foundational payment and settlement layer built for the new AI economy, announced a strategic integration with X Layer, the high-performance Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by OKX. This collaboration brings AEON's scan-to-pay capability directly to X Layer, enabling seamless real-world crypto payments across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Through this integration, users can now pay with X Layer–based assets at online and offline merchants, unlocking new use cases such as in-store retail, dining, convenience shopping, and local services by scanning the QR codes displayed at merchants. AEON's settlement infrastructure already connects to over 50 million merchants across the emerging markets, with expansion into additional African and LATAM markets underway.

As part of the collaboration, AEON's Web3 mobile crypto payment solution is also now natively embedded into OKX Pay, the payment wallet built into the OKX mobile app. This means users in supported regions can access AEON's scan-to-pay experience directly from OKX, using X Layer tokens for real-world transactions. This unified integration gives X Layer users frictionless payment options across multiple environments, bridging Web3 wallets and real-world spending.

AEON has rapidly grown into the largest crypto payment settlement network leveraging QR codes and bank transfers. Within four months of launch, AEON has acquired over 20 million merchants and serves more than 200,000 users. Across emerging markets, AEON's AI payment and Web3 mobile payment solutions already processed approximately 994k+ transactions and over $29M in volume, connecting 50M+ real-world merchants to the digital asset economy. By pioneering support for emerging AI payment standards such as x402 and ERC-8004, AEON is actively building the settlement layer for AI agents and agentic commerce, reshaping how value flows across the internet.