A stablecoin is a settlement instrument, useful for moving a dollar, and bounded to that. The agent economy will use stablecoins to settle, the same way it uses many chains to execute. This is why the coordination asset underneath especially matters. It is connected to the network's security, fees, incentives, and application-level economics rather than to any single user-facing transaction. Most oil buyers never hold a barrel. The settlement currency sits one layer back: https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/2076758178877054983(NEAR Protocol)