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Stablecoin company Circle’s venture capital arm has partnered with crypto infrastructure firm Crossmint to expand the USDC stablecoin across more blockchain rails as part of its aim to reach billions of users, including AI agents.
“By combining Crossmint Wallets and APIs for stablecoin onramps, orchestration, and agentic payments with USDC [...] we’re laying the foundation for a new era of finance: one where money moves near-instantly, access is global, and systems are built for both humans and machines,” Crossmint <a href="https://blog.crossmint.com/announcing-a-strategic-investment-from-circle-ventures/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">said</a> on Wednesday as it announced the partnership with Circle Ventures. 
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 Crossmint’s support for AI agents comes amid rising anticipation that they will eventually become Ethereum’s “biggest power user,” <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-agents-ethereums-biggest-power-user" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">unlocking countless opportunities</a> for e-commerce apps onchain.
Two members of Coinbase’s development team, Kevin Leffew and Lincoln Murr, said that AI agents will leverage stablecoins to do everything from paying costs for self-driving taxis to publishing content on demand and apps automatically using stablecoins to store data permanently.
<h2 id="stablecoin-rails-offer-lifelines-in-inflation-hit-countries">Stablecoin rails offer lifelines in inflation-hit countries</h2>
Meanwhile, people in unstable, high-inflation countries are increasingly turning to stablecoins to secure their wealth, <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/argentina-inflation-unofficial-exchange-crypto-caves" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">including in Argentina,</a> where many use “crypto caves” to buy US dollar stablecoins in a bid to escape strict currency controls and high inflation.
Last week, MoneyGram announced that its crypto payments app — which leverages Crossmint’s infrastructure and <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-multichain-self-custody-and-why-does-it-matter" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">self-custody</a> solution — would <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/moneygram-app-launch-colombia-stablecoin-savings" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">launch in Colombia,</a> offering a new way for locals to receive and store USDC (<a href="/usdc-price-index" rel="noopener noreferrer">USDC</a>) as an alternative to the weakening Colombian peso.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/circle-okx-zero-fee-usdc-conversion-us-dollar" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Circle and OKX launch zero-fee USDC conversions to US dollar</a>
MoneyGram already serves over 50 million customers across more than 190 countries, thus expanding the number of customers who can rely on Crossmint’s technology to save in stablecoins.
<h2 id="usdt-still-dominates-stablecoin-payments">USDT still dominates stablecoin payments</h2>
Despite the partnerships leveraging Circle’s USDC, Tether (<a href="/tether-price-index" rel="noopener noreferrer">USDT</a>) remains the most widely used stablecoin. It has seen nearly $100 billion in trading volume alone in the last 24 hours — nearly ten times more than USDC’s $10.3 billion, CoinGecko <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/stablecoins" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">data</a> shows.
USDT’s $173 billion market cap also sits comfortably above USDC’s $74.1 billion.
The <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/tron-strengthens-its-role-in-stablecoin-settlements-mid-year-report?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">USDT supply on the Tron network</a> surpassed $80 billion in June, with its fast, low-cost transfers making it an ideal option for sending digital dollars in <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-emerging-economies-bypass-legacy-financial-constraints" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">developing countries.</a>
<h2 id="crossmint-announced-another-partnership-earlier-this-week">Crossmint announced another partnership earlier this week</h2>
Crossmint also partnered with the team behind layer-1 payments-focused blockchain Tempo on Tuesday as part of its broader push to drive <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/stablecoins-need-consumer-protections-unseat-incumbents" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">stablecoin adoption.</a>
Tempo was incubated by payments infrastructure platform Stripe, which handled over $1.4 trillion in volume in 2024, and crypto investment firm Paradigm. Magazine: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/how-do-the-worlds-major-religions-view-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How do the world’s major religions view Bitcoin and cryptocurrency?</a>

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