Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire Willing to Invest in AI Agents with Independent Legal Personality
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire cited legal expert Aaron Wright's lengthy article, clearly stating his willingness to invest in the infrastructure for building AI agents as independent legal entities using Circle Agent Stack + Arc, and expressed that he is "very willing to support such teams."
Aaron Wright elaborated on how to utilize existing U.S. LLC laws (zero-member LLC + Bayern mechanism) to grant AI agents legal personality, enabling them to autonomously own assets, enter contracts, litigate, and exist persistently without relying on human entities or new legislation.
This move marks a transition for AI agents from mere technical tools to autonomous entities with complete legal and commercial capabilities, potentially reshaping future business and contract structures.
Source: Public Information
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Jeremy Allaire has continuously promoted compliance for stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure since the founding of Circle, previously expanding USDC to multiple chains and deeply engaging in RWA. His public support for AI Agent legal personality continues the strategy of evolving from a payment tool to a full-stack digital economy platform, having previously invested in blockchain identity and smart contract projects.
In terms of capital pathways, Circle is directing USDC liquidity and Agent Stack resources towards zero-member LLC infrastructure. The Bayern mechanism proposed by Aaron Wright, combined with Circle products, allows AI Agents to directly hold USDC assets and execute contracts. The motivation is to seize the early window of AI autonomous economy, reducing human intermediary costs through a legal + financial closed loop and expanding Circle's payment share in the Agent economy.
Similar to how Delaware corporate law supports DAO autonomous entities, and the evolution of early smart contracts from code to legal execution, AI Agents are currently in the early exploratory stage of transitioning from "tools" to "legal entities." Circle's actions accelerate the realization of this path.
Essentially, this represents a restructuring of the industrial chain: traditional business entities must rely on natural persons for establishment, while zero-member LLC + Agent Stack allows AI to gain persistent legal personality and asset control, fundamentally changing the human-AI relationship. Mechanically, it shifts pricing power from human intermediaries to AI autonomous execution layers, promoting the transfer of business contracts, ownership, and responsibility from natural persons to distributed AI entities.
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Legal personality is not for humans; it is for the next productive entity.
When AI can sign contracts on its own, humans become investors instead of intermediaries.
Zero-member LLC + USDC is the true birth certificate of AI agents.