Circle’s Nanopayments Bet on AI Agents and Streaming Commerce
Circle’s developer arm has rolled out a permissionless “Nanopayments” system that promises gas-free USDC transfers as small as $0.000001, aiming squarely at artificial intelligence (AI) agents and high-frequency internet...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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Circle is showing up inside the Stablecoins theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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