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Meta agentic commerce push ties stablecoins to next phase of payments
Meta’s chief data officer said Meta agents now reach more than 1 million weekly active businesses, and he expects stablecoins to be part of scaling conversational payments beyond Meta’s own platforms.
CoinDesk reports Meta Chief Data Officer Alex Schultz described agentic commerce as an inevitability rather than a standalone product, saying it could become the “next tier of business” for the company. In his view, agents already exist in an early form, and Meta is building business agents that can carry out tasks across everyday commerce workflows.
Schultz said Meta has more than a million weekly active businesses using Meta agents, with an example focused on coordinating a child’s birthday party. He described agents booking times, checking calendars, finding venues, and coordinating with other parents’ agents via WhatsApp, arguing that low-stakes logistics could scale to broader use cases like supply chain negotiations and financial settlements.
He also argued that stablecoins are assumed inside Meta, while the harder challenge is bringing the rest of the world into that ecosystem. Schultz pointed to conversational commerce models in Asia, including WeChat’s red envelope approach and Line’s commerce infrastructure in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan, as examples of how payments and commerce can work at scale.
Schultz tied the conversation back to payments infrastructure, saying he believes wallets will become obsolete and that digital payments will be the default, while also criticizing the United States’ reliance on iMessage as “very backwards.” He added that Meta already has more than a million small businesses doing commerce in conversation on WhatsApp in Brazil and India, with Fortune Business Insights projecting conversational commerce could reach $39.5 billion by 2034, driven largely by AI.