TechFlow News, February 18: According to an official announcement, OpenMind and Circle have previously announced a strategic partnership. By integrating Circle’s USDC stablecoin with OpenMind’s x402 protocol module, the two parties jointly launched a payment infrastructure tailored for autonomous agents and real-world embodied AI—enabling robots and AI agents to autonomously pay for energy, services, and data in the physical world.
Building on this foundation, the FABRIC Foundation has announced it will advance large-scale deployment along two key directions: First, “Robot Birthplace,” which leverages a crowdsourcing model to onboard liquidity providers and build a payment and settlement layer for embodied robots—including humanoid robots—to improve capital efficiency and lower deployment barriers; Second, “Acceleration of Adoption,” which coordinates robot manufacturing, shared simulation environments, and standardized evaluation frameworks across the full lifecycle—from training and data collection to evaluation and deployment—thereby accelerating iteration of high-capability systems.
The FABRIC Foundation stated that the payment infrastructure developed by OpenMind and Circle provides machines with an “economic brain,” while FABRIC oversees the end-to-end closed loop of “birth, production, operation, and evolution.” The tripartite collaboration aims to collectively usher in the era of the machine economy.
