@heyshrutimishra: AI agents are going to need bank accounts. Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, just laid out what the financial infrastruc…

AI agents are going to need bank accounts. Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, just laid out what the financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents actually looks like. And it is closer than you think. The shift is already happening. Stripe processes 1% of global GDP. Most of what it does with cloud computing is already autonomously incurred. No human pushes a button. The next phase: LLMs making financial decisions in tiny increments, settling on monthly bills. Billion-transaction-per-second velocities. Agent-to-agent commerce where bots hire other bots. The hard questions nobody has answered yet: Are bots treated as the responsibility of their owner? Is there any degree of independence granted? How does liability work? Which payment rails are best suited for billion-per-second velocities? Collison hints that crypto might play a role here. KYC and AML were designed for humans. For AI agents, identity is a much murkier question. Crypto is de facto exempt from AML by design. Maybe that is where agent transactions live. This is not a decade-away prediction. It is a gradient. We are already on it.