Stablecoins Take Early Lead in AI Agent Payments

Stablecoins are taking an early lead in AI agent payments as companies like Coinbase, MoonPay, Cloudflare, Circle, Visa, and Mastercard build infrastructure for autonomous software purchases. AI agents need to pay for data and computing, and stablecoins appear advantageous for machine-to-machine micropayments, potentially making AI agents a major crypto user class.