BlackRock Sees AI Agents Driving Stablecoin Adoption for Autonomous Transactions

BlackRock's latest research argues that artificial intelligence could become one of the most overlooked drivers of cryptocurrency demand, with autonomous AI agents poised to use stablecoins to independently buy computing power, data, and services without human intervention. The world's largest asset manager released a white paper titled "The Machine-Native Economy" this week, outlining how increasingly autonomous agents will need direct access to seamless, programmable payment infrastructure to execute their operations at scale.