The agent economy is real. It settled $73M in stablecoins in the past 12 months — 176 million transactions at $0.31 average. AI agents are coding, trading, researching, and automating real work.
But there's a problem: every single transaction required a human in the loop.
AI agents are rapidly evolving from sophisticated scripts into autonomous entities capable of complex decision-making and task execution. As they move towards independent operation, they inevitably encounter a critical bottleneck: the inability to conduct their own economic transactions. Traditional payment systems were not built for machines, by machines, and this fundamental mismatch severely limits an agent's true autonomy and potential.