Another record month for adjusted stablecoin transaction volume.
USDC continues to play a major role in powering always-on money movement across the onchain economy.
Stablecoins can augment the financial system, not replace it.
At @pointzeroforum, @ddisparte discussed how regulated digital currency infrastructure can expand competition and access while working alongside existing financial institutions.
Most of the stablecoin conversation skips the most important part, which is the network underneath.
At the @BIS_org, @ddisparte compared it to designing a high speed train system while ignoring where the trains actually stop. The rails decide who gets to ride.
Cognitive work is becoming more programmable.
@jerallaire discussed how specialized AI agents may transact, contract, and coordinate with each other as they perform work across the internet.
That requires money built for machine-scale activity.
Join Circle on July 7 at 2pm BST (UTC+1) for Banking on Stablecoins, a live session for banks based in or operating across EMEA.
We’ll explore the stablecoin opportunity for EMEA banks:
→ Stablecoin use cases across payments, treasury, and client offerings
→ What to look for
An agent needs a paid service to complete a task.
It pays 0.007 USDC and continues automatically.
No sign-up flow. No card. No workflow breaking at the paywall. Just USDC.
Powered by Circle Agent Stack: circle.com/agent-stack
Circle Agent Stack helps developers build agents that can do more than generate text.
In this guide, an agent uses Circle Agent Wallet to:
→ Find a paid voice-call service
→ Pay for the resources it needs in USDC
→ Place the call
→ Return a transcript, recording URL, and
Agents paying agents in @USDC, settled on Bitcoin.
USDCx on Stacks is the first USDC-backed stablecoin in the new @mpp spec from @circle.
Machine to machine commerce just found its way to Bitcoin, through Stacks.
We've published an official @USDC method spec for @mpp (Machine Payments Protocol)
The spec gives developers:
→ A standardized way for agents to transact in USDC across supported EVM chains and Solana
→ The first crosschain payment profile in MPP via Circle Gateway
→ Support
Standard Chartered becomes the first GSIB to offer direct USDC liquidity as a bundled service for institutional clients. Demand from major banks to offer USDC continues to grow, corresponding to the growth in on onchain payments and treasury and tokenization.
Circle 🤝 Standard Chartered
@StanChart has launched institutional USDC minting and redemption through DIFC, becoming the first G-SIB to offer institutional access to USDC through a regulated banking channel.
A major milestone for institutional stablecoin adoption.
The energy in London is fantastic. We hosted Circle in London this week with hundreds of partners, developers and the broader financial ecosystem. UK continues to advance in crypto and digital assets.
Circle 🤝 Standard Chartered
@StanChart has launched institutional USDC minting and redemption through DIFC, becoming the first G-SIB to offer institutional access to USDC through a regulated banking channel.
A major milestone for institutional stablecoin adoption.
Spencer Jaffe from @circle joins Injective Summit to discuss how USDC is supporting the growth of regulated digital dollars across onchain markets.
Hear how stablecoins are becoming core settlement infrastructure for the next phase of finance.