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Bernstein says agentic AI payments could boost stablecoin demand over time, even as current machine payment volumes remain small and disputed.<\/p>\n
Bernstein said agentic AI payments could become a long-term growth opportunity for stablecoins, even though adoption on today\u2019s machine-payment protocols remains small and is not yet material to the broader stablecoin investment case.<\/p>\n
In a Monday note shared with Cointelegraph, the broker said stablecoins could help unlock machine-to-machine payments by making microtransactions viable and enabling programmable, conditional payments between software agents without a human in the loop.<\/p>\n
But Bernstein said traction so far has been limited. The note said Strip<\/a>e and Tempo\u2019s machine payments protocol recorded about $5,000 in stablecoin volume in its first week, while Coinbase\u2019s x402 protocol handled no more than $25 million over the last 30 days. Bernstein\u2019s chart put x402 volume at about $24 million over that period. x402 is a payment standard developed by Coinbase that lets AI agents automatically make payments over the internet.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you want to read more News<\/a> articles, you can visit our General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n