Circle CEO Predicts Stablecoins Power AI Agents

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that within three to five years billions of autonomous AI agents will use stablecoins to conduct everyday payments on users' behalf. Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao echoed the prediction, while Coinbase introduced x402 in May and Google launched its Universal Commerce Protocol on Jan. 11 to enable agentic commerce.