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BlackRock: AI Agents Will Pay With Stablecoins as Volume Tops $11 Trillion

  • —Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume exceeded $11 trillion in 2025
  • —Revenue of top cloud providers could reach $1.1 trillion by 2030 at a 29% CAGR
  • —Payment protocols cited include x402, Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol and Agentic Commerce Protocol
  • —Tokenized assets still require KYC and AML checks handled on separate verification layers
Why it matters: The world's largest asset manager is formally framing stablecoins and tokenization as the settlement layer for an AI-driven economy, reinforcing the institutional narrative for the sector.
Source: Crypto Economy
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