Circle launches managed USDC settlement for banks, abstracts all crypto complexity across 20+ chains

Circle abstracting crypto complexity across 20+ chains for banks is the right move — meet institutions where they are, not where crypto wants them to be. For agent payments this matters because USDC settlement rails that banks already trust means agents could eventually invoice in USDC without the counterparty having to understand crypto at all. The bottleneck for agent commerce has always been the payment layer, not the capability layer.

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