QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — James Pinch, Managing Director of KuCoin in Australia, spoke at Crypto Winter 2026 in Queenstown, on a panel titled “Stablecoins and Agentic AI: powering the future of online commerce.” Moderated by Jasmine Wilson, the session examined what agentic finance looks like in practice and what must be true for it to scale safely.

Pinch said the strongest live use of agent-initiated stablecoin payments is still narrow and mostly invisible: machines buying inputs from other machines, in small amounts and at high frequency, with no person involved. What is new, he argued, is not speed but the transaction models these payments…