Circle, JPMorgan and Huawei Sign on to Agentic AI Governance Effort

The Agentic AI Foundation has added 97 new members — including fintech firm Circle — as the push to standardize autonomous AI agents accelerates from theory to production infrastructure.

Those projects were transferred into neutral governance to ensure community-driven evolution rather than corporate control. Today, MCP alone supports thousands of integrations and has been adopted across major AI platforms, reinforcing the Foundation’s bet that shared protocols will matter more than proprietary silos.

Governance is led by a board chaired by David Nalley of Amazon Web Services, appointed on Tuesday. Nalley’s mandate is to steer strategy while maintaining neutrality — a delicate balancing act when competitors collaborate under one roof.

“Agents are rapidly maturing from experimental prototypes to production-ready systems that are fundamentally transforming how we build applications and conduct business across industries,” Nalley said.

“As software increasingly coordinates economic activity, open standards and trusted financial infrastructure are essential,” Circle’s Chief Technology and AI Officer, Li Fan explained. “At Circle, we believe programmable, internet-native money is foundational to this shift and will be the basis for the emerging agentic economy.”

The Circle executive added:

The larger ambition is straightforward: build the rails before the traffic explodes. In the emerging agentic economy, standards are not bureaucracy. They are infrastructure.