No Priors: The Agentic Economy with Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire

Summary

Circle’s co-founder Jeremy Allaire discusses how AI agents lack a trustworthy medium to store value and execute contracts — and how programmable money on blockchain solves this. The conversation covers stablecoins like USDC as internet-native commerce rails, blockchain as an economic operating system for agent-to-agent transactions, and predictions for double-digit GDP growth as AI and blockchain reach their broadband moment. Key insight: the agentic economy needs financial infrastructure purpose-built for autonomous agents.

Source: No Priors Podcast Date: 2026-04-09

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