BlockBeats news: On February 26, John Collison, co-founder and president of Stripe, stated in an interview that as AI agents increasingly become independent economic entities, the global financial infrastructure must be fundamentally restructured to meet the demands of machine-to-machine (M2M) payments. Although this trend is widely discussed today, large-scale transactions of this kind have not yet materialized—but that day is very near. Stripe anticipates a significant volume of transactions between agents this year and is currently focused on building systems specifically designed to facilitate transactions among AI agents.
John Collison added that this is also closely related to why Stripe is now making such a strong bet on USDC: Stripe, in collaboration with the crypto investment firm Paradigm, co-founded the new blockchain Tempo, because the future requires a highly scalable blockchain—and existing blockchains, due to technical trade-offs, lack sufficient scalability. Tempo is designed from the ground up to achieve maximum scalability. Our belief is that not only do humans need this capability, but AI agents need it even more—making Tempo one of our most critical initiatives in this space.