France may miss out on the wave of AI agents and stablecoin payments: Experts say tax system needs to be adjusted within 6 months to avoid marginalization Odaily Planet Daily News: An opinion article published by French media Le Monde pointed out that France may only have about 6 months to grasp the new wave of industries led by "agentic AI", otherwise it may be marginalized in the global digital financial system. Several French cryptocurrency industry insiders believe that online transactions driven by AI agents are growing rapidly, with most settlements already completed through stablecoins. According to the State of Crypto report released by Andreessen Horowitz, the annual transaction volume of stablecoins has reached approximately $46 trillion, nearly three times that of Visa and 20 times that of PayPal, making it an important infrastructure for the global payment system. The article further points out that the x402 standard, promoted by Coinbase and adopted by Cloudflare, Google, Visa, and others, supports AI agents to automatically complete payments through stablecoins. Currently, the cumulative number of transactions has exceeded 119 million. However, in terms of taxation, the current provisions in France have been criticized for not being able to adapt to the trend: the complex tax processing mechanism between stablecoin exchange and fiat currency withdrawal is believed to inhibit the flow of funds back into the banking system, resulting in a large number of digital asset transactions staying in the stablecoin ecosystem for a long time. Against the backdrop of the gradual integration of AI agents and stablecoin payments, the global financial infrastructure is being restructured, and if France does not adjust its regulatory and tax framework in a timely manner, it may miss out on a new round of digital economy dividends.