In a wide-ranging conversation on CoinDesk Spotlight, Schultz laid out a vision for Meta’s future in which agent trading is not a product category but an inevitability.
“We think it could be the next level of business for our entire company,” he told host Sam Ewen.
The agent economy is already here, but it is unevenly distributed
Schultz framed agentic economics the same way science fiction author William Gibson framed the future: already present, not yet dominant.
“We are creating commercial agents for all companies,” he said. “We have more than a million weekly active deals with Meta agents[…] practically nothing at the beginning of the year.
The use case he described was deliberately mundane: coordinating a child’s birthday party. Agents booking schedules, checking calendars, searching for venues, communicating with other parents’ agents, all on WhatsApp. The point of the mundane example is that it scales. If agents can handle low-risk logistics, they can handle supply chain negotiations, financial agreements, and cross-border trade.
“You write that example big,” Schultz said, “and then, if you’re us, you hope to do it over WhatsApp.”
The payments layer within that vision is stablecoins.
