Stripe co-founder and president John Collison recently stated in an interview that as AI Agents gradually become independent economic entities, the global financial infrastructure needs fundamental restructuring to meet the "machine-to-machine" (M2M) payment demands. Although everyone is currently discussing this trend, large-scale transactions of this kind have not yet emerged, but that day is very close. Stripe expects a certain scale of transactions between Agents this year, and a core current task is to build systems specifically adapted for AI Agents to transact with each other.

John Collison added that another key reason why Stripe is heavily betting on USDC now is related to this. Stripe, together with crypto investment firm Paradigm, has incubated a new blockchain called Tempo, because the future world needs an extremely scalable blockchain, and existing blockchains are not sufficiently scalable due to technical trade-offs. Tempo pursues very high scalability from its foundational design. Our philosophy is: not only humans need this capability, AI Agents need it even more, so Tempo is one of our most core deployments in this field.