TLDR Tech / Crypto
Building the Open Agentic Economy
Circle's vision paper frames AI agents as a new form of labor, published like websites, ranked on merit, and compensated via stablecoin transactions, with ERC-8004 for identity and x402/MPP as the payment layer. Discovery relies on open registries where reputation derives from demonstrated behavior rather than self-description, avoiding the centralization that occurred in web search. Agents holding stablecoin balances pay for downstream services without pre-arranged integrations, enabling multi-agent economic workflows that settle on existing stablecoin rails. Circle targets H2 2026 to deliver a working agent market cycle from deployment through settlement, with each transaction generating reputation signals that feed future discovery.
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