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The real growth in the agentic economy won't come from humans paying agents. It will come from agents paying other agents. Jeremy Allaire laid this out on TBPN. The cost per task could be five cents or a hundred dollars depending on complexity. Once agents start contracting with each other at scale, the compounding effect kicks in. That's where this goes from interesting to explosive.

As of March 2026, HIFI has processed more than $100M through Circle Payments Network and more than $500M in USDC. With CPN, HIFI can turn on new payment routes through a single network connection, helping developers expand stablecoin-native financial applications into more markets without rebuilding their payment stack. These applications can support use cases like: ✅ Remittance ✅ Payroll ✅ Marketplace payouts ✅ Treasury workflows Together, HIFI and CPN help stablecoin-native financial products add compliant connectivity, expand market reach, and move money across borders faster. Read the case study: https://lnkd.in/gyc_53eV

AI adoption is accelerating because the tools are simple and easy to use. At Paris Blockchain Week, Kash Razzaghi highlighted a similar opportunity for onchain  systems: reaching a point where the technology is abstracted and just works. The use cases gaining the most traction are the most intuitive, like moving money globally in real time.

EURC’s share of the euro stablecoin market more than doubled from January 2025 to March 2026. As liquidity deepens, EURC is becoming a stronger standard for euro-denominated activity onchain.

Circle CCTP (Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol) is live on the Stellar network. This upgrade will enhance USDC transfers across the Stellar ecosystem, which already supports natively issued USDC. Now users will be able to seamlessly move USDC between Stellar and 23 supported blockchains. This improves interoperability and enables new use cases on Stellar. Wallets, apps, or services that use USDC can further interact with the Stellar ecosystem. https://lnkd.in/ePfZTZA4

CCTP is now live on Stellar. Developers, institutions, and businesses can now move USDC between Stellar and 23 supported blockchains using Circle’s canonical burn-and-mint infrastructure. CCTP on Stellar gives wallets, fintechs, institutions, exchanges, and bridge apps a more capital-efficient way to support: ✅ Crosschain transfers, deposits, and swaps ✅ Programmatic treasury rebalancing ✅ Crosschain payment settlement ✅Cross border payments Start building: https://lnkd.in/gWgFD5az 

An agentic economy requires a different cost structure. On TBPN, Jeremy Allaire explained why reducing transaction costs toward zero is critical for enabling agent-to-agent payments and high-frequency economic activity. As costs fall, entirely new use cases become viable.

As AI agents become capable of making decisions, coordinating tasks, and triggering actions faster than human workflows, the financial infrastructure supporting them needs to operate at the same speed. That is where programmable money becomes critical. One system moves intelligence. The other moves value. Circle's Chief Technology and AI Officer Li Fan sat down with Mallun Yen at SXSW to discuss why AI and programmable money are converging.

What happens when money behaves like information? “The possibilities expand dramatically.” Settlement runs 24/7. Liquidity moves in real time. Money becomes programmable and embedded into financial systems. Neha Komma Circle VP of Product, Payments on why stablecoins go beyond payments and unlock new economic potential.

Banks are moving beyond pilots. The question is no longer whether to engage with digital assets. It is how to make them work inside the operating core of the bank. In our latest Circle Current blog, we explore what it takes to move from experimentation to production across payments, treasury, compliance, and client flows: https://lnkd.in/gMyXvqeG