AI agents boost USDC payments

AI agents completed 140M payments totaling $43M in 9 months, with 98.6% settled in USDC at $0.31 avg. per transaction.

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built an autonomous ai agent wallet on solana for the @superteamng agentic wallets bounty what makes it different: spending limits are enforced on-chain in an anchor program, not just in js config the agent literally cannot overspend even if client code is compromised features/link👇

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Congrats to @PrimeVectorLabs for launching landing page. For people who didn't know ↓ @virtuals_io aGDP measures economic output created by autonomous AI agents. Instead of human GDP, aGDP tracks real value generated by agents across the Virtuals ecosystem. ACP and aGDP, if these keywords sound unfamiliar, you are already behind the market and it is time to update your knowledge. Remember this: $VIRTUAL once hit an all time high of $5B market cap when they still had almost nothing built. Right now, the builders in the Virtuals ecosystem are moving fast and shipping nonstop. And if the market flips bullish again, you already know what happens next. 👀

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Crypto’s strongest narrative today is that it can become the financial system for AI agents, with stablecoins as the core payment rail. If that narrative fades because real-world adoption and results remain limited—as crypto narratives often do—then the sector risks reverting to little more than boring fintech 2.0: a space dominated by institutional operators and regulators in suits rather than a frontier of outsized asymmetric upside. At that point, it would be fair to argue that the generational opportunity is over in the crypto space Circle 4Q25 earnings "What’s been interesting to see is that there’s been this direct and immediate pickup, where AI agents are realizing... that agent-to-agent transactions need a reliable, low cost, trusted medium of exchange. Virtually all of the AI payments infrastructure that we’re seeing, the agent type activity, is happening with blockchains, it’s happening with USDC" Coinbase 4Q25 earnings "We're even seeing these AI agents adopt stablecoins for payment, and I believe that stablecoins will be the default payment method for AI agents"