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Agents & Autonomy

Agent-to-agent payment infrastructure and stablecoin economics

Design of autonomous agent payment systems using stablecoins and analysis of transaction economics and regulatory implications for agent-to-agent commerce.

7 posts · First seen 2026-02-23 · Last activity 2026-02-23
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2026-02-23T21:31 @patio11 Sufficiently intelligent agents can calculate rather easily how many transactions they could tolerate losing to optimize for payment costs, and they will conclude that's low percentage unless they're selling something with razor thin margins. ↩ reply parent
2026-02-23T21:30 @patio11 An open question, if you have an agent aggressively negotiate to recover payment costs, is whether it has lower transaction volume as a result of that negotiation. Perhaps counterparty doesn't understand or agree; perhaps friction just kills the deals. ↩ reply parent
2026-02-23T21:29 @patio11 Very few humans have a negotiation about the negotiation, and most businesses serving humans choose to support as many of the colors of plastic as they can. But plausibly with infinite cognition you have many more negotiations. ↩ reply parent
2026-02-23T21:28 @patio11 "In an age of true cognitive abundance, agents might be more able than humans to spend 2,000 tokens on a negotiation on how to split the payment fee." Very plausible! Historically humans handle that negotiation by presenting plastic. The plastic embeds a negotiation. ↩ reply parent
2026-02-23T21:01 @patio11 I sometimes get asked whether I expect agents paying each other to use stablecoins. I certainly expect them to call a remote API backed by a database, but wonder why they would have strong preferences on which payment rail to use.
2026-02-23T19:52 @DanielleFong RT @bearlyai: Credit card stocks down big based on Citrini Research says AI agents will eventually transact on Stablecoin payment rails and…
2026-02-23T19:07 @TrungTPhan RT @dccockfoster: Agent to agent payments will happen in stablecoins. A 2% rip on those transactions doens't make sense, regulatory issues,…
@patio11 2026-02-23T21:31
Sufficiently intelligent agents can calculate rather easily how many transactions they could tolerate losing to optimize for payment costs, and they will conclude that's low percentage unless they're selling something with razor thin margins.
↩ reply parent
@patio11 2026-02-23T21:30
An open question, if you have an agent aggressively negotiate to recover payment costs, is whether it has lower transaction volume as a result of that negotiation. Perhaps counterparty doesn't understand or agree; perhaps friction just kills the deals.
↩ reply parent
@patio11 2026-02-23T21:29
Very few humans have a negotiation about the negotiation, and most businesses serving humans choose to support as many of the colors of plastic as they can. But plausibly with infinite cognition you have many more negotiations.
↩ reply parent
@patio11 2026-02-23T21:28
"In an age of true cognitive abundance, agents might be more able than humans to spend 2,000 tokens on a negotiation on how to split the payment fee." Very plausible! Historically humans handle that negotiation by presenting plastic. The plastic embeds a negotiation.
↩ reply parent
@patio11 2026-02-23T21:01
I sometimes get asked whether I expect agents paying each other to use stablecoins. I certainly expect them to call a remote API backed by a database, but wonder why they would have strong preferences on which payment rail to use.
@DanielleFong 2026-02-23T19:52
RT @bearlyai: Credit card stocks down big based on Citrini Research says AI agents will eventually transact on Stablecoin payment rails and…
@TrungTPhan 2026-02-23T19:07
RT @dccockfoster: Agent to agent payments will happen in stablecoins. A 2% rip on those transactions doens't make sense, regulatory issues,…

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