{"id":34622,"date":"2026-05-11T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/34622\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:14:13","slug":"circle-unveils-ai-infrastructure-for-agentic-economy-with-usdc-powered-machine-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/34622\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle Unveils AI Infrastructure for \u2018Agentic Economy\u2019 With USDC-Powered Machine Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Circle said it has launched financial infrastructure for AI agents, including Circle Agent Stack, Agent Wallet and Agent Marketplace.
\nThe stack supports USDC-based machine-to-machine, or M2M, payments, and Circle Gateway can send nanopayments as small as $0.000001 without gas fees.
\nJeremy Allaire and Nikhil Chandhok said Circle is working to expand infrastructure for an AI- and agent-centered global economy by combining USDC, programmable wallets and a stablecoin network.<\/p>\n

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Circle has launched Circle Agent Stack, a financial infrastructure suite for artificial intelligence agents designed to let them hold digital assets, access services and make programmatic payments.<\/p>\n

According to Circle\u2019s website on May 11, the stack includes Circle CLI, or command-line interface, Agent Wallet, Agent Marketplace and Nanopayments built on Circle Gateway.<\/p>\n

The company said the offering is intended to create an environment where not only developers but AI agents themselves can participate as economic actors. The service is available immediately.<\/p>\n

At the core of the stack is machine-to-machine, or M2M, payment infrastructure built around the USDC stablecoin. Circle Gateway-based Nanopayments are designed to send as little as $0.000001 in USDC without gas fees, a structure aimed at high-frequency, ultra-small-value transactions.<\/p>\n

Agent Wallet is designed to let agents manage assets autonomously within predefined guardrails, including permission-based controls and spending limits. Agents can create and use wallets instantly without a separate approval process.<\/p>\n

Agent Marketplace is a directory-style platform where humans and AI agents can discover, evaluate and connect with a range of agentic services. The platform is designed so agents can pay for services programmatically.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Allaire, Circle\u2019s co-founder and chief executive officer, said existing financial infrastructure has been built around people and that the next phase of the global economy will shift toward AI- and agent-centered activity. He described Agent Stack as the first comprehensive suite of services in which AI agents themselves are the customers.<\/p>\n

Nikhil Chandhok, Circle\u2019s chief product and technology officer, said USDC is an internet-native, programmable and always-available digital dollar. Combining programmable wallets, service discovery and machine-readable controls enables software to make payments the way it exchanges messages, he added.<\/p>\n

Circle is also expanding internet-based financial infrastructure through a USDC-centered stablecoin network, its global remittance infrastructure Circle Payments Network, and Arc, its enterprise blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Circle said it has launched financial infrastructure for AI agents, including Circle Agent Stack, Agent Wallet and Agent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,7493,8263,8257,3278,8255,8256,8262,8261,8259,8258,8260,3277,4637,7966],"class_list":{"0":"post-34622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agentic-ai","8":"tag-agentic-ai","9":"tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-bitcoin","11":"tag-bitcoincommunity","12":"tag-blockchain","13":"tag-bloomingbit","14":"tag-coincommunity","15":"tag-coininfo","16":"tag-coininvest","17":"tag-coinnews","18":"tag-coinreview","19":"tag-coinstats","20":"tag-cryptocurrency","21":"tag-ethereum","22":"tag-solana"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}