Stripe Co-founder: Interfacing Machine Transactions Will Explode, Betting on USDC and Tempo as Core Tenets

BlockBeats News, February 26th. Recently, Stripe Co-Founder and President John Collison stated in an interview that as AI Agents gradually become independent economic entities, the global financial infrastructure will require a fundamental reconstruction to meet the needs of "Machine-to-Machine" (M2M) payments. Although everyone is currently discussing this trend, large-scale transactions of this nature have not yet been seen, but that day is very close. Stripe expects to see a certain scale of transactions between Agents this year, and a key focus at the moment is to build a system specifically tailored for AI Agent interaction.

John Collison added that another reason why Stripe is now so heavily betting on USDC is also related to this. Stripe, in collaboration with the crypto investment firm Paradigm, co-incubated a new blockchain called Tempo because the future world needs an extremely scalable blockchain, and existing blockchains are not actually scalable enough under technical trade-offs. Tempo has been designed from the ground up for high scalability. Our philosophy is: not only do humans need this capability, but AI Agents need it even more, so Tempo is one of our most essential moves in this field.