OpenMind is pleased to announce a partnership with Circle to build AI-powered payment infrastructure.
BlockBeats News, December 2nd, according to official sources, OpenMind has announced a partnership with Circle to leverage the USDC stablecoin and the x402 payment protocol to drive embodied AI's autonomous payment capability in the real world. The two parties will integrate OpenMind's robotics and embodied AI systems with Circle's value transfer infrastructure to support robots in completing energy, service, and data payment settlements without human intervention.
According to the introduction, the related applications will cover three types of scenarios:
1) Task markets, including tasks such as delivery and inspections along with payment;
2) Information markets, selling local sensing and environmental data;
3) Resource markets, used for location-based resource payments such as charging, storage, and tool usage.
USDC serves as the value carrier, while x402 acts as the underlying payment protocol, providing embodied AI with a cross-network, machine-native payment method. OpenMind and Circle stated that the partnership will serve as a foundational module for the future embodied AI economy and will showcase more real-world deployment cases such as robot automatic charging and offline payments in the coming months.
You may also like
Strategy Founder: The Next 10 Years of Bitcoin
Forbes Special Report: Stablecoin cross-border payments are faster now, but not cheaper yet
Li Feifei's latest long article: When video generation, robots, and NVIDIA all claim to be world models, we need a taxonomy
Blaming the desolation of the cryptocurrency world on the rise of AI is a form of intellectual laziness
The impact of OUSD on Circle, Tether, and Paxos: not a single negative factor, but a more complex reshaping of competition
A valuation of 8 billion dollars, doubling in 8 months! What makes the crypto-friendly bank Erebor Bank stand out?
340 billion valuation: Li Yanhong's largest IPO, a seat in Kunlunxin's shares is hard to come by
Stablecoins are the "royalists" of the crypto world: Open USD brings the old currency system into play
Cape Verde 2-3 Argentina: The Underdog Team That Stunned the World in Defeat
Cape Verde's run ended in a 3-2 defeat to Argentina, but their journey — three unbeaten draws, one heroic goalkeeper, and a fight that pushed the defending champions to the brink — is the kind of story markets recognize too: small caps can rattle blue chips long before anyone expects it.
Semiconductor stocks plummet, yet Anthropic wants to create a 2nm chip
Where is Zhao Changpeng's billion-dollar investment going? YZi Labs' investment landscape fully revealed
Ethereum Foundation Report: A Basic Guide to Ethereum for Governments and Financial Institutions
A pre-announced harvesting case: After the cryptocurrency price dropped by 99%, the public chain Saga exited to transform into AI
When American giants collectively "defect" from Chinese AI models
BIS Report Compliance Observation: The Real Risks of Stablecoins, Not Just "Depegging"
Portugal 2-1 Croatia: Ronaldo's 20-Year Knockout-Stage Drought Ends With a Debt Finally Collected
Portugal beat Croatia 2-1 in the 2026 global football championship's knockout rounds as Ronaldo scored his first-ever knockout-stage goal, Gonçalo Ramos struck a stoppage-time winner, and VAR ruled out a late equalizer for offside.
