Payments

Open USD integrates across Stripe Treasury, Issuing, and Global Payouts with zero minting fees and partner rewards backed by Coinbase, Visa, and others

MoonPay Korea will integrate global payment and stablecoin infrastructure with domestic financial services for remittances, payments and digital asset distribution.

The protocol combines confidential transfers and protocol-level spending limits for autonomous AI agents, settling on Robinhood Chain

Credit card skimming and EBT fraud persist despite digital alternatives, as AI reduces production costs for personalized fake cards and criminals exploit outdated magnetic stripe infrastructure.

Fiat-backed stablecoin supply grew 40x since 2020, with real-world payment volumes reaching $400 billion last year, signaling a shift beyond crypto capital markets.

The virtual card, live since Sept. 10, lets Colombian customers hold and spend dollar balances via stablecoins through Rain and Crossmint infrastructure.

The Paradigm-backed network processed $25 million in stablecoins across 177,000 addresses, targeting merchants and banks moving digital dollars.

The social network transitions all U.S. creator payments to its in-house X Money service, ending its prior relationship with Stripe and consolidating financial operations.

The Stripe and Cross River Bank partnership enables virtual cards for AI agents to transact without human intervention, signaling payments infrastructure shifting to machine commerce.

Autonomous agents are settling machine-to-machine payments on XRPL at scale; Ripple's $5M bet on t54 signals institutional conviction in an agent-driven economy moving beyond digital goods.

AXP fell from $340.84 to $320.55 after CEO Stephen Squeri routed earnings upside into growth spending, leaving FY 2026 EPS guidance unchanged at $17.30–$17.90.

The round, led by Global PayTech Ventures, will fund R&D and global expansion for the platform that processed over $5 billion in recovered transactions.

The stablecoin card issuer adds Ansa's white-label prepaid wallet software and a new Mastercard partnership to bridge on-chain and traditional payment rails.

The self-custodial wallet reported a net loss reversing $37.7M in year-ago profit, as acquisition costs and expanded payment infrastructure weigh on results.

Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for roughly $10 billion, a deal that has triggered a surge of inbound interest for competitor startups.

The USDPT-backed card lets remittance recipients hold U.S. dollar value on-chain, extending crypto utility into global payments across 40-plus countries.

The payment giant finalized its purchase of the London-based stablecoin infrastructure firm, its largest digital currency investment to date, sharpening fiat-crypto interoperability across its network.

South Korean payment processor KSNET will pilot Solana Pay across 330,000 merchants, routing 130 million monthly transactions onto the Solana blockchain

The stablecoin issuer signed a memorandum of understanding with Kakao Group to integrate USDC across KakaoTalk and Kakao Pay's vast digital ecosystem

The mainnet upgrade allows users to send supported stablecoins without holding SUI tokens, reducing friction for retail payments and microtransactions

Gokhshtein Media's preference for Bitcoin payments signals maturing digital asset infrastructure for commerce and media

Rain executive confirms the surge, highlighting stablecoins' growing role in everyday transactions beyond speculative trading

American Express unveils its agentic commerce platform, leveraging intent contracts to redefine customer interactions and transaction flows, raising questions about its long-term financial impact and competitive edge.

This groundbreaking partnership between a Japanese financial titan and a global payment network directly incentivizes digital asset accumulation, pushing crypto further into mainstream financial infrastructure.

Mastercard's Senior Vice President Christian Rau highlighted an unprecedented expansion in online payment choices, a trend directly fueled by the burgeoning digital asset economy and its push for financial innovation.

Visa's new platform for autonomous AI shopping agents signals a major shift in global commerce, demanding scalable and secure blockchain infrastructure for future transactions.