BlackRock believes autonomous AI systems could create a new customer class for stablecoins: machines executing high-frequency payments without human intervention. Stablecoins already represent over $300 billion in circulation and $11.2 trillion in adjusted transaction volume in 2025, growing at an 80% compound annual rate between 2020 and 2025. Cumulative investment in AI infrastructure could exceed $5 trillion between 2025 and 2030 according to BlackRock. Traditional payment networks, crypto protocols, and stablecoin issuers are now competing to become the default infrastructure for machine-to-machine transactions.
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