Circle and OpenMind have announced a partnership to enable autonomous AI-powered nanopayments using USDC. The collaboration was demonstrated with OpenMind's robot dog, Bits, using USDC to autonomously pay for its own recharging.

This partnership marks a significant step towards a future of agentic commerce, where machines and AI agents can transact with each other without human intervention. By leveraging Circle's USDC and a new agentic commerce solution, the two companies are building the infrastructure for a new economy of autonomous agents.

The collaboration will focus on developing standards for high-frequency, low-cost, machine-to-machine payments. This will allow AI systems to conduct transactions seamlessly, opening up new possibilities for various applications, from self-maintaining drones to smart-contract-based services.