Beyond humans: Lily Liu says Solana is building the payment rails for the 'AI machine economy'

Solana Foundation President Lily Liu said Western Union's stablecoin adoption validates blockchain as essential financial infrastructure for both human and AI economies. She argued traditional payment networks cannot economically support micropayments needed for autonomous machine commerce, positioning Solana's fast, cheap rails as critical for this evolution. Liu also flagged "internet capital markets" as crypto's next frontier.
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