Stripe Co-founder: Machine-to-machine transactions will see explosive growth, betting on USDC and Tempo as core strategies

BlockBeats News, February 26, 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 will need a fundamental overhaul to meet the needs of "machine-to-machine" (M2M) payments. Although everyone is currently discussing this trend, there has not yet been a large-scale outbreak of such transactions, but that day is very near. Stripe expects to see a certain scale of transactions between Agents this year, and a core current task is to build a system specifically adapted for transactions between AI Agents.

John Collison further added that the core reason why Stripe is now betting so heavily on USDC is also related to this. Stripe and crypto investment firm Paradigm have jointly incubated a new blockchain, Tempo, because the future world needs a highly scalable blockchain, and existing blockchains are not scalable enough due to technical trade-offs. Tempo has pursued extremely high scalability from its foundational design. Our philosophy is: not only do humans need this capability, but AI agents need it even more, so Tempo is one of our most important initiatives in this field.