Circle Global Head of Marketing Peter Schroeder announced that USDC settles 98.6% of all payments made by AI agents. Approximately 400,000 AI agents utilized the stablecoin over the past nine months. These agents conducted 140 million individual transactions. Total volume for these autonomous machine-to-machine payments reached $43 million.
Circle launched its Nanopayments system in March 2026 to facilitate further adoption. The system reduces developer costs by bundling small off-chain transactions.
Circle’s stock price surged 75% in recent trading days following the announcement.