Nanopayments powered by Circle Gateway Is Now Live on Mainnet

Circle Internet Financial has launched Nanopayments powered by Circle Gateway, a revolutionary financial rail on the mainnet that enables gas-free USDC transfers down to $0.000001, aimed at supporting the agentic economy. This innovative service allows developers, builders, and AI agents to perform high-frequency, low-cost transactions across 11 blockchains without the typical gas fees associated with onchain transfers. By employing the x402 protocol and Circle Gateway's unified balance model, Nanopayments offers instant verification and chain-abstracted settlements, enabling seamless, sub-second user experiences and facilitating a machine-scale economy. This development is part of Circle's broader efforts to create an open, interoperable infrastructure for agentic commerce, which is anticipated to reach $5 trillion in revenue by 2030. With early integrations already underway, developers can now leverage this system to build real-time, usage-based billing solutions for data, compute, and other agentic services without the need for traditional account creation or subscription models.