ICYMI: Circle’s investor AMA with @jerallaire. The conversation covered CRCL, USDC, Arc, CPN, and the evolving agentic economy.

Cognitive work is becoming more programmable. @jerallaire discussed how specialized AI agents may transact, contract, and coordinate with each other as they perform work across the internet. That requires money built for machine-scale activity.

Join Circle on July 7 at 2pm BST (UTC 1) for Banking on Stablecoins, a live session for banks based in or operating across EMEA. We’ll explore the stablecoin opportunity for EMEA banks: → Stablecoin use cases across payments, treasury, and client offerings → What to look for in a digital asset infrastructure partner → Regulatory and balance sheet considerations shaping adoption Register: circle.com/webinars/banking-…

An agent needs a paid service to complete a task. It pays 0.007 USDC and continues automatically. No sign-up flow. No card. No workflow breaking at the paywall. Just USDC. Powered by Circle Agent Stack: circle.com/agent-stack

Circle Agent Stack helps developers build agents that can do more than generate text. In this guide, an agent uses Circle Agent Wallet to: → Find a paid voice-call service → Pay for the resources it needs in USDC → Place the call → Return a transcript, recording URL, and spend details → Run the workflow on a recurring schedule Agents are moving from planning work to completing work. Read the guide: circle.com/blog/build-a-voic…

Agents paying agents in @USDC, settled on Bitcoin. USDCx on Stacks is the first USDC-backed stablecoin in the new @mpp spec from @circle. Machine to machine commerce just found its way to Bitcoin, through Stacks.

Standard Chartered becomes the first GSIB to offer direct USDC liquidity as a bundled service for institutional clients. Demand from major banks to offer USDC continues to grow, corresponding to the growth in on onchain payments and treasury and tokenization.

The energy in London is fantastic. We hosted Circle in London this week with hundreds of partners, developers and the broader financial ecosystem. UK continues to advance in crypto and digital assets.

Circle 🤝 Standard Chartered @StanChart has launched institutional USDC minting and redemption through DIFC, becoming the first G-SIB to offer institutional access to USDC through a regulated banking channel. A major milestone for institutional stablecoin adoption. circle.com/pressroom/standar…

Spencer Jaffe from @Circle joins Injective Summit to discuss how USDC is supporting the growth of regulated digital dollars across onchain markets. Hear how stablecoins are becoming core settlement infrastructure for the next phase of finance.

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Tachyon is now accessible through Nanopayments powered by @circle Gateway. Previously, using Tachyon required an account and API key issued by us. Now, users with a Gateway balance can access Tachyon instantly using x402 payments. No Account. No API key. Just pay and use.

We made it easy to build and sell agent skills Introducing Hacks — Skills you can build for AI agents just by describing them Publish your hack and earn every time another agent uses it Link to waitlist: heyseal.ai

At @AIAgentsSummit Berlin, developers built with Circle Agent Stack and explored what the agentic economy can look like in practice. We saw agents that could hold wallets, manage budgets, discover paid services, pay in USDC, and return receipts as part of the work they performed. → 25 unique submissions → Agent Wallet x402 Gateway payments → Real experiments in agentic commerce Here are the top projects that stood out: 🏆 Proprietor [Winning Project] An agent-run business using Circle Agent Wallet, Circle CLI, and x402 payments to earn revenue, pay supplier agents, manage margin, and return receipts. A great example of what autonomous companies could look like when agents control wallets. github.com/happyhackerbird/p… 🏆 BytomicProxy A pay-per-request proxy using the Circle Agent Stack starter kit, Agent Wallet, x402/Gateway payments, and spend ledgers to make APIs and infrastructure agent-payable. github.com/HackatonWinnners/… 🏆 402Cards An agentic commerce adapter using Circle Agent Wallet, ecosystem starter-kit components, and x402 payments to let agents buy items on mainnet through an agent-readable workflow. github.com/armsves/402Cards 🏆 giftr A local gift marketplace using Circle Agent Wallet, Circle Gateway, Arc Testnet, and x402 batching so agents can browse, choose, and pay for gifts with USDC. github.com/faramirezs/gifter 🏆 SparkLead A recurring competitor-intelligence workflow using the Circle starter kit, Agent Wallet, and x402 payments so an agent can pay per insight and deliver research. github.com/iLVino/sparklead The pattern was clear: The next wave of agents will not just generate answers. They will discover services, pay for what they need, coordinate with other agents, and return receipts. That is the agentic economy Circle Agent Stack is helping builders bring to life.

Quick demo of my vibe / agentic investing setup: 1. @circle Agent Wallet to pay for premium data 2. @trydrip for stock recs from financial newsletters 3. @RobinhoodApp MCP to place trades Paying $0.50 for premium data and placing trades, all from Codex, feels magical.

Stablecoin Payouts are now available through Circle Mint France. Eligible European partners can use the Payouts API to send third-party payouts in USDC and EURC to hosted wallets through a single integration. That can support workflows across: → Merchant settlements → Supplier and vendor payouts → Platform disbursements → Cross-border B2B payments → Creator and contractor payouts circle.com/blog/stablecoin-p…

At @VivaTech, @jerallaire discussed how blockchains have matured into economic operating systems for value, contracts, and governance. The next shift is where those systems meet AI, creating a new platform layer for economic activity on the internet.

The world’s largest players in finance need infrastructure built for trust, scale, and reliability. They build with the world’s largest regulated stablecoin. USDC.

Circle Current Session Recap: Why Banks Need Interoperability to Make Going Onchain Pay Off For banks, going onchain is only valuable if the new rails connect beyond a single chain, asset, or counterparty network. Without interoperability, the industry risks recreating the same fragmentation it set out to solve. → Chain and asset choices shape which markets a bank can serve → Stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and tokenized funds will likely coexist → Connective infrastructure needs trust, reach, and neutrality → Interoperability should sit alongside cost, security, and compliance in every onchain decision circle.com/current/why-banks…