This year at Davos was different – the topic of stablecoins was evident everywhere.
Today, industry leaders and professionals united on stage to discuss the present and future trends of stablecoins. A panel called “Where Are We On Stablecoins?” delved into the basic principles behind the new financial technology, featuring members of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), Circle, Animoca Brands, and Liquidity and Sustainability Facility.
There was key reasoning for why the technology should scale, in particular including the importance of stablecoin remittance to many countries in Africa, bringing liquidity to capital markets via tokenisation, as well as a broader economic outlook on how stablecoins over time can contribute to a higher velocity of money.
A topic perhaps that isn’t as considered as much is agentic commerce, which has only recently become a possibility with better chip efficiency and compute of LLM models.
Here’s CEO and Co-founder of Circle Jeremy Allaire speaking on this:
But as far as stablecoins go to help people and businesses save on money via cheaper settlements, they can also help save on time for project owners by enabling AI Agents to carry out daily ecommerce and invoice payments on the open web.
