Sea|Mar 20, 2026 06:34
There has been a lot of news about Agentic Payments recently, and there is a feeling that mass adoption in the cryptocurrency industry is really going to happen in conjunction with AI.
Let me briefly summarize:
The new L1 @ Tempo, heavily developed by Stripe and Paradigm, has been launched on the mainnet. As expected, there have been no coin releases... nor any activities surrounding TVL and DeFi, making it appear very low-key. Tempo has launched a key protocol called Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), which focuses on payments between AI Agents. If you are interested, you can read the introduction written by @ RubyWang https://((x.com))/Rubywang/status/203447349783421068. After completing the wallet settings, you can claim 1 USDC and use it with OpenClaw to experience the charm of on chain, high-frequency, and small payments.
2/And Agentic Payments is also a narrative support point for Circle's recent stock price increase. Reflected in the data: the issuance scale of USDC is 3/7 of USDT, but the on chain transfer volume is 2.5 times that of USDT. Perhaps inspired by this, WLFI's USD1 was released today AgentPay SDK (https://((((x.com))))/worldlibertyfi/status/2034708006366044486), Beyond various on/off chain yields (https://((x.com))/SeaBitcoin/status/203482194879426895), continue to search for more diverse usage scenarios for USD1.
In this way, the new public chain that focuses on Agenetic Payments has an additional Tempo in addition to @ GoKiteAI. I watched a video interview with @ mscryptojiayi and @ ChiZhangData this week (https://(((x.com))/mscryptojiayi/status/2031629924373569637), and they spoke very well.
Lightning Network, which has always focused on small and affordable payments, is also striving to seize this wave of opportunities. They are promoting Aperture( https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/aperture )An implementation based on the Lightning HTTP 402 Protocol (L402) standard continues to promote sats as a payment medium. One reason why the Lightning Network has not developed for so many years is that stablecoins such as USDT/USDC have risen too quickly, and people have become accustomed to using USD stablecoins for payments instead of the precious Bitcoin Cong. Will it be different this time?
It can be foreseen that the competition between new public chains and stablecoins surrounding Agentic Payments is the latest main battlefield in the Crypto industry.
So the question is, are there any opportunities for retail investors to participate in new assets/agreements?
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