Stablecoins: 81% of Institutional OTC Trades

Stablecoins now account for 81% of institutional OTC trades, with volumes surging 94% this year according to the Finery Markets Stablecoins 2035 report. The analysis predicts the term stablecoin will fade into financial infrastructure within a decade, leaving machine-to-machine commerce as the core development. StraitsX CEO Tian Wei details how AI agents will execute transactions under permission-based rules using Purpose Bound Money as the control layer, setting standards for agent payments in institutional stablecoin market growth and AI agent payments ecosystems.