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Binance founder CZ has declared that AI agents will generate payments at a scale that dwarfs human activity, as the world’s largest exchange’s research arm posits that stabilizing oil prices may have removed the most dangerous macro headwind facing crypto markets. The signals, both coming from the Binance ecosystem, paint a bullish picture for digital assets, with one pointing at structural demand from machine-driven transactions on one side, and the other highlighting the retreat of stagflation risk on the other. Why are AI agents tipped as the next big driver of crypto volume? In a post on X on March 9, CZ quoted a BNB Chain announcement about the $U stablecoin’s adoption of EIP-3009, a standard that enables gasless, signature-authorized transfers without requiring on-chain approval transactions.  He wrote, “AI agents will make 1 million times more payments than humans, and they will use crypto.” The $U token, issued by United Stables on BNB Chain, bills itself as the first stablecoin on the network with native EIP-3009 support for agent payments. The project’s chief executive officer, Athena Y, stated that $U is “designed to become the united value layer for a world where humans and AI operate side-by-side as economic participants.” CZ has made the AI agent payments thesis a recurring theme. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, he stated that blockchain would become the most natural technical interface for AI agents, on the grounds that autonomous software cannot swipe a credit card or receive an SMS verification code. CZ is not alone in his prediction, as Circle’s CEO, Jeremy Allaire, told investors on a February earnings call that Circle could play a major role in the convergence between AI, stablecoins, and blockchain. AI agents have already settled an estimated 140 million payments among themselves over…

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Filed under: News - @ March 9, 2026 8:20 pm