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Finance is becoming agentic. Tomorrow, AI agents will search, negotiate, buy and pay. Robots, APIs and machines will transact with each other. OpenAI/Stripe, Google AP2, Visa/Mastercard, Coinbase x402, Circle USDC and Cloudflare NET Dollar are already building these rails. The next financial system will no longer be human-only.

Everyone is still watching USDT’s market cap (~185B). But the real 2026 adoption signals are elsewhere: USDC has reached 76.9T in all-time volume, is present in +185 countries, and holds 55 global licenses. @circle is pushing hard: • Nanopayments: programmable payments from as little as $0.000001 with zero gas. Perfect for the agentic economy — AI agents paying for compute, data, APIs, usage-based billing, and machine-to-machine transactions in real time. • Arc: the new stablecoin-native L1 that unifies everything — USDC issuance, cross-chain, institutional settlements, compliance, and AI Agent payments on a single layer. My prediction: By the end of 2026, USDC will surpass USDT in real on-chain volume and become the default rail for institutions, Visa, enterprises, and the AI agent economy. $CRCL has a bright future ahead. USDT will remain the king of offshore parking. USDC + Nanopayments + Arc = the programmable, auditable, compliant infrastructure everyone will actually use.

@jeankobaa @NCheron_bourse Exact. C’est même le prérequis.

@MikeGAgentic @NCheron_bourse Extrêmement simple quand tu n'as pas besoin de l'argent investi

Pour une grande partie de la population avec une épargne de sécurité déjà en place, je suis persuadé que le combo :  DCA sur ETF MSCI World (ou équivalent) + diversification avec Or et Bitcoin est probablement la meilleure manière d'investir à long terme.  Oui, on pourrait optimiser. Non, ce n'est pas parfait. Oui, il y aura des crises. Et non, les performances passées ne préjugent pas des performances futures. Mais cela demande peu d'efforts, c'est simple à mettre en place et jusqu'à preuve du contraire, les résultats de cette stratégie sont excellents.

@MilkRoad Compelling thesis, but token distribution is the make-or-break point. Without fair access, this could just rebuild the same inequality onchain.

Raoul Pal: blockchain is "humanity's pension plan in the post-AGI world." AI does all the economic activity onchain. The returns flow to token holders. To anyone who participated. "And that's basically your pension plan" - available to anybody with an internet connection, on equal footing with the agents. FT @RaoulGMI @RealVision

I think USDC is massively underestimated. Most people still see it as just another stablecoin. I think that’s a mistake. To me, USDC, and more broadly dollar stablecoins, are among the most strategic infrastructures for the monetary future of the United States. And I’m focusing mainly on @Circle here for one reason: regulation. Because if financial assets move on-chain, there will inevitably need to be a global settlement currency. A currency that is liquid. Programmable. Compliant. Available 24/7. And today, that currency is not the euro. It is not Bitcoin. It is not CBDCs yet. It is dollar stablecoins. That’s where the stakes become enormous. We’re talking about a market worth more than $300 billion, massive on-chain volumes, and issuers that are gradually becoming structural buyers of US T-Bills. In other words: when @Circle issues USDC, it doesn’t just create a digital dollar. It also turns part of the global demand for digital dollars into demand for short-term US government debt. And that’s exactly why I find USDC more strategically interesting than many other crypto assets. $USDT dominates offshore markets. But USDC is aiming for something else. Western institutional rails. Banks. Fintechs. Payments. Tokenization. Funds. Regulatory compliance. In my view, USDC is the regulated bet on the private digital dollar. The dollar dominated the 20th century through oil, correspondent banking and SWIFT. I think it could dominate the 21st century through code, wallets and blockchains. If USDC becomes a settlement layer for the tokenized economy, the United States won’t just be defending the dollar’s dominance. It will be extending it into the Internet. $CRCL

Everyone thinks Kevin Warsh would automatically be better. But many people may end up missing Jerome Powell’s experience. Powell understood the markets, investor psychology, and the fragile balance between inflation, growth, and financial stability. With Warsh, the tone could be much tougher. Sometimes, you only realize the value of experience once it’s gone.

@cryptorover @grok x.com/mikegagentic/s…

Hey @grok, is stock market about to crash like it did during the dot-com bubble in the year 2000?

Exactly. And yes, it’s starting now. The next unlock is interoperability: agents need verifiable identity, permissions, settlement and audit trails to operate safely across Web2 and Web3. This middleware layer, connecting payments, RWAs and tokenized assets, is what will make agentic finance truly enterprise-ready.

@MikeGAgentic Agent-powered finance is already in full swing, & AI is actively moving money, with middleware layers like @w3arew3 effectively connecting top web3 & off-chain services like payments, RWAs, & tokenised stocks amongst others to real-world enterprise use The future is now

Finance is becoming agentic. Tomorrow, AI agents will search, negotiate, buy and pay. Robots, APIs and machines will transact with each other. OpenAI/Stripe, Google AP2, Visa/Mastercard, Coinbase x402, Circle USDC and Cloudflare NET Dollar are already building these rails. The next financial system will no longer be human-only.

Everything I’m seeing points to a risk-off phase. The DXY is showing signs of a rebound within a broader bullish structure. If the dollar starts gaining strength again, that usually puts pressure on risk assets. At the same time, stablecoin dominance looks like it’s turning back up. To me, that signals the market is moving into protection mode: less risk, more cash. So my view is simple: I expect downside pressure on stocks and crypto over the coming weeks. On the other hand, oil could be one of the assets to watch on the upside. If inflation concerns come back, the dollar strengthens, and geopolitical tensions remain elevated, energy could benefit from rotation. My bias is clear: stocks and crypto lower, oil higher. Not financial advice, just my market read.

@pau_m05 @w3arew3 Exactly.

@NextGenVisionar @w3arew3 Exactly right. Rails move value. Verified execution makes it trustworthy. That's the distinction that separates enterprise deployable from demo grade.

@BastianBraun121 What level are you watching for the real $TSLA breakout confirmation? The upper trendline looks like the key zone here.

🚨Couldn’t agree more: $TSLA is about to make history. The next few months are going to be absolutely massive.

@TheSkayeth Where’s your invalidation on this setup, a weekly close below the 0.5 fib, or losing the Gaussian Channel entirely?

I almost gave up on $ETH. But this chart shows that $ETH could be outperform soon: it's still holding onto (1) the Gaussian Channel and (2) the 0.5 fib level. I added more $BMNR on the bloodbath today.

@MartiniGuyYT China would rather sacrifice some short-term performance than stay dependent on Nvidia and, by extension, U.S. decisions. It’s less about chip quality and more about self-reliance: pushing Chinese companies to use domestic hardware to accelerate their own semiconductor industry.

🇨🇳 China has just rejected Nvidia chips, despite the U.S. approving the sale and is doubling down on domestic semiconductors. $NVDA is feeling the pressure.

@pau_m05 @w3arew3 Exactly, Paula. Payment rails alone aren’t enough, you need a verifiable, auditable, programmable execution layer on top. That’s where agents become truly enterprise-ready: every action, payment, and proof can be traced, validated, and trusted.

Payment rails for agents are the foundation. The execution layer above them bounded workflows, Proof of Compute on every transaction, audit trails machines and regulators can both verify that's what makes it enterprise deployable. @w3arew3 already runs that with Stripe and Space and Time integrated on Avalanche.

@cryptorover Yes, risk is known

HUGE NEWS: 🇺🇸 Trump is warning the chip industry openly now. His message: relocate to America, because China won't wait forever on Taiwan. He thinks Xi waits him out, then moves. 90% of advanced chips come from one island 100 miles off the Chinese coast. The market is NOT pricing this in.

The market is obsessed with AI. But it forgets that the physical heart of this revolution sits on an island China considers its own: Taiwan. And above all, TSMC, the nerve center of advanced chip manufacturing. If Beijing decides to move, the semiconductor bubble could burst within hours. Nvidia, Apple, AMD, data centers, AI, global markets — everything rests on a supply chain far more fragile than most people want to admit.

@leolanza ETH isn’t just a commodity like gold. It’s the native asset of a network where demand for blockspace translates into fees, burn, and validator economics.

@NextGenVisionar ETH is a commodity. Zero commodities are valued based on fees. How many fees do bitcoin and gold collect?

ETH is mispriced when Ethereum’s market cap dips below the value its ecosystem secures. Today ~$294B secured. After the CLARITY Act, Ethereum could secure tokenized stocks, bonds, and global money. What happens when $294B becomes $10T?

This is where crypto starts to feel less like speculation and more like infrastructure: programmable payments between autonomous agents. $ETH $CRCL $COIN

@arc @TowerExchange Liquidity aggregation plus smart routing feels like a very practical layer for making stablecoin swaps smoother on Arc.

Arc Builder Spotlight: @TowerExchange Tower is building a stablecoin-focused DEX aggregator on Arc testnet. Join us live on May 21 at 10:00 AM EDT for a walkthrough of the build: → Liquidity aggregation across Arc DEXs → Smart routing for swap execution → Bridging across supported chains → Tower AI for portfolio, trade, and performance insights community.arc.network/public/events/…