Why I’m Bullish on robinhood:0xaa07a0e9209e16ac99708c3ec70159c6ef3128a3: The Central Bank of Onchain Inference Every platform shift produces a new unit of account before it produces its winners. The web produced the click. Mobile produced the install. Cloud produced the compute-hour. I believe the agent era will produce its own, denominated in inference, and that the entity issuing that unit will occupy one of the most valuable positions in the next decade of software. That is the thesis behind my position in Orbio, and I want to lay it out in full. Tokenized inference is $CREDIT Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter, reported at $7.5 billion, is the clearest signal yet of where value accrues in agentic software. OpenRouter did not win by building better models. It won by sitting between developers and every model, metering the flow, and taking a small, unavoidable fee on it. Stripe bought that position because it understands what comes next: the flow will not stop at models. An agent that thinks also searches, runs code, deploys, stores, and messages, and every one of those actions is a purchase. The company that bills all of them through one balance is the payments layer for machine labor. Stripe will build the account-based version of that layer, and it will be formidable. But accounts belong to people. Agents do not have legal identities, cannot clear KYC, and increasingly spawn, fund, and pay other agents without a human in the loop. For that population, which I expect to become the largest consumer of software within a few years, the balance cannot be a ledger entry in someone else’s database. It has to be an asset the agent holds. Orbio’s answer is solana:As9FpeL4rnXYmmAn6ZqJpaFojdoW2yU9MfHUNfbupump, an ERC-20 on Robinhood Chain in which one token activates one dollar of usage across Orbio’s gateway: six model providers, web search and scraping, social and onchain data, image and video generation, sandboxes, deployments, servers, databases, and email, all metered against a single balance with a hard spending cap on every call. The breadth that Stripe will spend the coming years assembling is already live. The closest analogy is not a marketplace. It is an issuer. Tether takes in dollars and issues a liability backed by reserves; Orbio takes in inference and issues a liability backed by prepaid compute. ORBIO is the stake and governance asset that backs issuance and captures fees, in the pattern of MKR to DAI. CREDIT is the currency. Orbio’s current fee base is weighted toward launchpad trading activity, and I sized the position assuming that activity is cyclical. What drew me in is the revenue stack beneath it, most of which scales with agent usage rather than with token volume. The largest of these, in my view, is external minting. Enterprises hold substantial unused committed spend across cloud and model providers, and today that capacity expires or is written off. Orbio is positioned to let suppliers mint CREDIT against verified idle capacity, routing buyer traffic through the supplier’s own credential and paying out in USDG at a haircut as it is consumed. That is a mint spread on the largest pool of stranded value in software, and it turns Orbio into the issuer of record for idle inference the way Tether became the issuer of record for offshore dollars. Beneath it sit the wholesale-to-retail spread on committed compute rates, yield on the USDG float behind unactivated CREDIT, breakage on dormant balances, a live markup on tool calls, app fees from third-party developers through Sign in with Orbio, and protocol and activation fees capped at ten percent that remain in the contracts, unpulled. The market is pricing the cyclical line. I am underwriting the other seven. I am clear-eyed that the external minting mechanism is a roadmap, not a shipped feature; what exists today is staker and fee-minted supply. I expect the clean design to route traffic through supplier credentials rather than transfer credits. CREDIT’s discount depends on market depth that is still thin. And Orbio must earn acceptance beyond its own gateway for CREDIT to function as a currency rather than a prepaid balance; the burn-to-pay interface and an x402 settlement path are the work that converts the one into the other. The structural question, whether agents will consume software through one balance, has been answered by the largest payments company in the world writing its largest-ever check. The remaining question is whether that balance will be an account or a currency. I believe it will be both, that the currency version is the one agents will actually hold, and that Orbio has the earliest and most complete claim on issuing it.