The next frontier of finance is autonomous. We are entering the era of Agentic Payments, where AI agents negotiate, verify, and settle transactions without a human in the loop.

Two distinct paths are emerging. The first one is the "walled garden" path where legacy PSPs like Stripe are racing to integrate stablecoins to bring "internet speed" to traditional rails. While pragmatic, this model still relies on centralized issuers and permissioned infrastructure.

The second one is the sovereign path. On the #PlebChain, agents are already using Bitcoin and Lightning for pure machine-to-machine commerce. AI agents don't need a bank's approval to transact. Lightning enables fractional-cent settlement that legacy networks can't handle. Native currency for a bot economy with no central "kill switch".

While traditional PSPs like Stripe build better "plumbing" for the old world, Bitcoin is providing the native currency for the machine economy.

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