Stripe President and co-founder John Collison (존 콜리슨) predicted AI agent commerce will grow explosively.
The Block reported on Feb. 25 that he said in a recent podcast that stablecoins and high-speed blockchains would be key infrastructure supporting that economy.
Stripe is taking an aggressive approach, including integrating with Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network Base to allow AI agents to transact in USDC.
Bloomberg reported Stripe is accelerating efforts to expand an AI- and blockchain-based financial ecosystem, including weighing an acquisition of PayPal.
The AI agent economy refers to systems in which software goes beyond simply generating text to manage wallets, raise funds and automatically execute transactions. For this, Coinbase developed wallets for AI agents, and MoonPay introduced a non-custodial layer to let AI conduct on-chain transactions.
But automated financial systems still carry risks. An AI agent built by an OpenAI developer misinterpreted an instruction and sent a social media user all of their assets, showing security problems have not been resolved, The Block reported.
Chi-gyu Hwang
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