Circle pitches USDC as the currency of AI agents, citing 165M transactions
- —Circle reported 165 million transactions involving about 80,000 AI agents by mid-October 2026
- —USDC accounted for 99–99.8% of transaction value on the x402 protocol
- —USDC enables near-zero-cost settlement with payments as small as $0.000001
- —Circle launched its Agent Stack on May 11, 2026: wallets, marketplace, CLI and nanopayments
Why it matters: Circle is positioning USDC as the settlement layer for the agentic economy, but its 99%+ share on x402 points to heavy reliance on a single issuer.
Source: Crypto Briefing
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