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Mastercard In Crosshairs: Citrini Models AI Agents Bypassing Interchange As Stablecoins Threaten Card Economics

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  • Card-focused banks' moats were made of friction, and friction was going to zero

    80% confidence

  • AI agents optimizing consumer transactions would eventually identify the 2-3% card interchange rate as an obvious cost to eliminate

    80% confidence

  • AI agents would migrate toward stablecoin settlement on Solana or Ethereum Layer 2 networks where transaction costs are measured in fractions of a penny

    80% confidence

  • The sole intent of this piece is modeling a scenario that's been relatively underexplored

    80% confidence

  • Mastercard's stablecoin infrastructure investment could prove prescient against AI agent disruption

    80% confidence
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