According to @casey_lau, Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison told an audience that Stripe expects to be hiring more than ever in 2026 because of AI and likened AI to the GLP-1 for efficiency; source: @casey_lau. Stripe supports USDC payments on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, so crypto traders track USDC on-chain transfer volumes on these networks as an adoption indicator during fintech scaling cycles; source: Stripe official announcement (April 2024), Chainalysis 2024 State of Crypto report. Enterprise AI adoption has been cited as a demand driver for AI compute and cloud services in 2024 earnings commentary from NVIDIA and Microsoft, linking large-scale AI deployment and hiring plans to infrastructure consumption; source: NVIDIA 2024 earnings call and filings, Microsoft 2024 earnings call and filings.