CIRCLE AND $USDC'S ROLE IN THE AGENTIC ECONOMY

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Legacy payment rails (cards, ACH, SWIFT, and correspondent banking) were architected for human-initiated transactions, leaving a gap as AI agent deployment demands programmable, instant, global, and intermediary-free money movement. USDC and Circle's infrastructure target this gap as the settlement layer for the agentic economy, with onchain programmability enabling autonomous spending policies that traditional card rails cannot replicate. Circle's developer platform, CCTP cross-chain transfer protocol, and compliance tooling extend its advantage as enterprise AI agent deployments scale.