Visa and OpenAI’s agentic-commerce partnership shows the payment layer becoming the permission layer for AI agents.

Agent Wallet lets software trade across DeFi, but every permission rule becomes part of the security boundary.

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Ripple joins Water.org’s Get Blue campaign, using RLUSD to move funds to microfinance partners backing safe water loans in emerging markets.

The Clearing House plan gives banks 24/7 tokenized settlement while keeping customer money inside regulated deposit accounts.

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edgeX has paid 50% of approved June 2 claims in USDC, with the remaining half due in EDGE tokens in April 2027 and claims closing on June 9.

You can tap the star-shaped, NFC-enabled wand at terminals to make contactless payments. It's the first of several tap-to-pay hardware doodads coming from Cash App.

Paybis says 22.5% of businesses use or plan stablecoins for cross-border payments as B2B volume reaches 97.8% in early 2026, new data shows.

Fed’s Waller backed stablecoins as payment tools, while BoE’s Greene said tokenized deposits may overtake them within five years in banking.

Dash says digital cash remains crypto’s key use case, arguing stablecoins, DeFi and DApps need scarce, fast money for payments in 2026.

Argentina’s bill would block crypto payments to illegal gambling sites and add prison terms of up to 6 years.

Evernorth says legacy banking rails lag modern tech as its XRP treasury strategy, Nasdaq plan and XRPL use keep institutions focused in 2026

Keyrock says AI agents settled $73M across 176M transactions as stablecoins, led by USDC, became the main machine payment rail in 2026 now.

US lawmakers introduced the PARITY Act, directing Treasury to review crypto tax relief for small payments, stablecoins and staking.

Square now has roughly 1m U.S. merchants enabled for Bitcoin payments via Lightning, with sellers settled in USD by default at checkout now.

Japan Blockchain Foundation plans EJPY on JOC and Ethereum for B2B settlements as Japan’s regulated yen stablecoin race expands across 2026.

Unfortunately I was only able to join for the third and last day of FediForum, but the energy was quite strong even then!

There were some interesting discussions with @ozoned@btfree.social @reiver@mastodon.social and others (@johannab@cosocial.ca, @j12t@j12t.social, etc) about fediverse payments and growing the open social web — this spanned two session slots, actually!

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The head of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) says the organization is working...

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Coinbase-backed x402 launched Agentic.market, a marketplace where AI agents can discover, compare, and pay for online services.

Last year, four huge companies pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fund the creation of Donald Trump’s presidential library, a planned monstrosity in Miami that—in a perfect Trumpian twist—may also double as a hotel. The companies—ABC; Paramount; Meta; and X, formerly Twitter—entered into the agreements with Trump to settle legal cases he’d brought against them, which experts had…

Amid mass displacement and collapsing trust in institutions, digital wallets are becoming critical conduits for aid, connecting diaspora donors directly with communities on the ground.

Apple and Russia are no longer doing business via the App Store and some of its other services. Per MacRumors, as of April 1st, payment processing is no longer available for purchases made across the App Store and other Apple services in Russia, according to Apple. The closure of services was confirmed by a support […]

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AI agents are moving beyond chatbot duty and into a bigger role across the internet. As software starts researching, buying, coordinating, and completing tasks with limited supervision, a new question arises: how does a non-human user pay, prove who it is, and operate within clear rules? That question opens an unexpected lane for crypto, especially […]

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Latvia was allowed to continue implementing the mandatory procurement component (OIK) mechanism, according to a letter from the Ministry of Finance of Latvia to the Saeima Requests Commission. In its response to a parliamentary request regarding allegedly unlawful OIK payments, the ministry stated that the institution responsible for introducing and supervising the mechanism is the […]

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Stablecoins’ promise lies in their utility, making them ideal for solving one of the oldest problems: managing risk in an unpredictable world.

Put on your best progressive’s voice and repeat: in our lived experience ‘Linux user’ is a protected characteristic, and anyone who disagrees is actually, like, performing an illegal operation and making us feel memory-unsafe right now!

Global payments giant Visa is expanding its partnership with Stripe-owned Bridge to scale stablecoin-backed cards to more than 100 countries. In a statement published on March 3, Visa confirmed that the expanded program will allow businesses and developers to issue…

PayPal and MoonPay have introduced a new platform that allows developers to create custom stablecoins backed by PayPal’s PYUSD. In a joint Feb. 27 press release, the companies announced the launch of PYUSDx, a framework developed with M0 to support…

Crypto payments platform MoonPay has introduced a new product designed to give artificial intelligence systems direct access to digital wallets and on-chain transactions. MoonPay Agents, a non-custodial software layer that enables AI agents to create wallets, manage funds, and trade…

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

Airbnb expands its Reserve Now, Pay Later feature globally, allowing users to secure bookings without immediate payment and cancel without losing money upfront.