Stablecoin giant Circle has joined the Agentic AI Foundation looking to participate in shaping up the “internet of agents” as AI technology gathers steam internationally. A total of 97 new joinees have taken the member count of the foundation to 146 this week. Wall Street giants including JPMorgan and American Express along with tech titans Hitachi and Huawei have also pledged to be part of the non-profit consortium.
For Circle, the step adds to the recent steps it has taken to accelerate its role in the agentic AI ecosystem. In December, for instance, Circle joined hands with OpenMind to deploy x402 USDC microtransactions for AI agents.
Announcing its joining Circle said, “As AI agents move from experiments to production systems, open standards and interoperable infrastructure matter more than ever. Programmable, internet-native money will be foundational to the agentic economy. We’re building for that future.”
The Agentic AI Foundation was announced by the San Francisco, California-based Linux Foundation in 2025. The Linux Foundation itself is a non-profit organization that opens its doors to niche and critical open-spurce software projects that need industry grounding.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block are among co-founders of the Agentic AI Foundation with support from Google, Microsoft, and AWS among others. David Nalley, the director of developer experience at AWS, has been named the governing board chair of the foundation tasked with setting its priorities, neutral governance, and encourage work towards AI interoperability and readying agentic AI standards.
“Research on the economic impacts of open source shows that 89 poercent of organizations that have adopted AI use open source in their infrastructure, reinforcing the importance of neutral governance, agreed upon standards, and open collaboration as agentic architectures mature. I’m thrilled to welcome so many new companies to the AAIF,” said Nelly in the official statement.
The foundation has divided membership in four tiers — Gold, Platinum, Silver, and Associate — depending on factors like the funding they bring to the table.
While Gold membership costs around $200,000 per year, the Associate Membership is free of cost. The Platinum and Silver memberships are priced $350,000 and $10,000 respectively. Each tier gets different decrees of say in the governing decisions of the foundation as well as exclusive entries into AI summits among other benefits.
“As AI evolves toward an autonomous ‘Internet of Agents,’ the industry must solve challenges that extend beyond software, including global scale, secure interconnection, and ultra-low-latency execution. . By joining the AAIF, Equinix is helping build an open, secure, and infrastructure-ready foundation for the global autonomous economy,” said Arun Dev, Vice President of Digital Interconnection, Equinix.
AltLayer, ChainOpera AI, and HashGraph are other names from the Web3 sector that have joined the Agentic AI foundation alongside Circle.
The fact that American Express and JPMorgan Chase have also enrolled in this foundation indicates that the Wall Street is not taking the integration of AI with finance lightly.