What if you could pay per article, episode, task, or API call instead of committing to another subscription? Circle’s Chief AI Officer Li Fan explains how gasless nanopayments could enable fast, low cost, machine-to-machine transactions for the agentic economy.

Could machine-to-machine payments make per-task agent economics more practical than subscriptions?

Micropayments are the product. Six-second finality isn’t Solana: but deterministic settlement + a multi-currency design is an underpriced option while the market only prices Base/USDC. Read more here:

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What if it costs just $0.0001 or $0.0007?

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This is where micropayments start making the agentic economy feel truly native.

gasless usdc nanopayments could make subscriptions feel ancient

Nanopayments make machine commerce possible. The chain still has to define who the agent is and what it may spend.

I always forget I signed up for subscription

I love the ideas

Gasless nanopayments remove the last major friction for high-frequency agent-to-agent commerce. Once an agent can pay $0.01 for a data call or micro-task without gas or subscription overhead, the economic density of the agent network jumps. How are you thinking about identity and rate-limiting so nanopayment spam doesn’t become the new attack surface?

the bottleneck isn’t gasless txs, it’s turning nanodollars into real revenue for creators; without a seamless on‑ramp the agentic economy stays a curiosity, not a moat.

The interesting shift isn’t cheaper payments—it’s changing the unit of commerce from subscriptions to individual actions. For agents, paying per API call or task could make usage-based economics native, but only if fees stay negligible.

gasless usdc nanopayments? okay circle, absolute slay.

pay-per-use with gasless usdc feels way more natural for agents than subscriptions ever will

My portfolio is already executing autonomous machine to machine liquidations every single block.

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That's all well and good, but why are you so indifferent to hacks and don't promptly freeze the USDC in the hackers wallets?