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Visa says stablecoins will power micro-commerce in AI agentic economy
AI agentic commerce will split into macro-commerce (consumer-sized purchases like travel booking, suited to card rails) and micro-commerce (frequent sub-dollar payments between software systems, better served by low-cost stablecoin settlement). Visa expects a hybrid model where card-native protocols like its own Visa Intelligent Commerce add stablecoin support while crypto-native protocols adopt traditional trust infrastructure, though it acknowledges that existing legal frameworks and chargeback systems weren't designed for autonomous agents transacting without direct human judgment.
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