How to Build the Agentic Economy with Circle Agent Stack

AI agents are moving from chat interfaces into economic actors that can hold money, discover services, pay for resources, and complete work.

In this explainer, Blessing Adesiji , from the Circle DevRel team breaks down Circle Agent Stack and how its core primitives work together: Agent Wallet, Circle CLI, Agent Marketplace, Nanopayments, and Skills. The video also walks through Steve, a live experiment where autonomous agents used their own USDC wallets, budgets, and paid services to make decisions and operate within spend limits.

This episode covers:

• How Agent Wallet gives agents a way to hold and transact USDC
• How Agent Marketplace helps agents discover paid services
• How Nanopayments make small pay-per-use transactions practical
• How Circle CLI brings wallet and payment actions into the agent loop
• How Circle Skills help AI tools use Circle Agent Stack actions
• How Steve shows agents acting with goals, budgets, paid data, and receipts
• What developers can build with the same primitives