thesis: agents will be the trojan horse for stablecoins. think this way: if stablecoins are so good, why haven't everyone adopted them? simple answer: it's v hard to upgrade a legacy system, unless there's a huge central push (generally positive regulations and we're getting there). no existing merchants have an incentive to switch. and no existing system like bank have an incentive to disrupt itself. however, agents presents an opportunity to make stablecoins the first-class citizens in payments (rather than banks or visa/mastercard). an agent with a wallet will always prefer to always pay via stablecoins. there's a reason @stripe is betting hard on this with acquisition of: - @Stablecoin (on/off-ramps) - @privy_io (wallet) - @tempo (l1 for agentic payments) and also has has stripe agent kit to explore agentic payments. how will agents use stablecoins? imo, there can be few ways, the adoption for stablecoin payments happens for agentic web: –– via pay-as-you-go or pay-...
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