AI Agents Overwhelmingly Choose USDC for Payments, Says Circle CEO

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire claims AI agents are increasingly settling transactions in USDC, highlighting a new use case for stablecoin payments.

Allaire pointed to agent-to-agent transactions being settled overwhelmingly in USDC, stating that 'the machines have already chosen their money.'

USDC is a dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by Circle, designed to maintain a relatively stable value against the U.S. dollar.

The emergence of autonomous AI agents has created a new potential category of digital transactions, allowing one system to compensate another without requiring human authorization.