Circle positions USDC as core infrastructure for AI agent payments and the emerging agentic economy.
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Circle is positioning USDC as the settlement asset for AI agent payments, with the stablecoin handling 98.6% of agent-initiated transactions across six protocols and major technology companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, per a joint cohort study. While agentic payments infrastructure is already in production across the ecosystem, institutional-scale volumes have not yet materialized, with current on-chain volumes remaining in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars. Circle frames the current period as a planning window for institutions to address constraints around identity, delegation, policy, and transaction controls before agent payments move from experimental deployments to widespread adoption.