Payments News
Agentic Payments Hit 100 Million Transactions on Base as Machine-to-Machine Commerce Gains Traction
Data from Chainalysis shows automated blockchain payments are gaining staying power, with rising transfer values and improving user retentio...
AI Agents Are Starting to Spend Money Online — And Big Tech Wants the Rails
AI agents are starting to pay for APIs and services online as Visa, Stripe, Google and Coinbase build rails for stablecoin-based machine com...
Stablecoins Edge Toward Mainstream as DoorDash and Meta Test Global Payouts
Matt Hougan’s latest CIO memo highlights payouts as a key driver for stablecoin growth, with large platforms positioned to expand adoption...
Brazil Blocks Crypto in Cross-Border Payments, Tightens Rules on Digital Remittances
Brazil barred crypto settlement inside regulated eFX cross-border payment rails, forcing remittance providers back to fiat channels while or...
Uphold Pays US$5M Over Collapsed CredEarn Crypto Scheme
Regulators secured a multi-million settlement after investors were exposed to undisclosed lending risks through a crypto yield product marke...
Australia Eyes Stablecoin-Ready Payment Rails as Tokenised Money Goes Mainstream
Australians can now have their say on how the systems that underpin direct bank transfers evolve, including plans to support interoperabilit...
AI Agents Are Fueling a New Era of Crypto Payments, Says Pollak
Jesse Pollak says AI agents need software-native money, with Coinbase-backed x402 emerging as an early payment rail for machine-to-machine t...
Senator Warren Presses Elon Musk Over Risks of X’s Upcoming Payments Platform
Lawmakers are probing X Money’s structure, questioning how crypto features and elevated deposit returns could impact users and the wider s...
XRPL Pushes Into Wall Street Territory With Privacy-Focused Upgrade
XRPL Commons and Boundless unveiled native zero-knowledge proof integration for the XRP Ledger at Paris Blockchain Week. ...
Hougan: Continued Global Instability May See $1 Million Bitcoin Price “Look Like A Starting Point”
Bitwise CIO, Matt Hougan, believes Bitcoin could break US$1 million if it continues to be adopted as an alternative to the US dollar for int...
North Korean Fake Dev Ring Nets Millions as Crypto Firms Face Rising Insider Threat
A network of North Korean IT workers posing as developers reportedly earned over $3.5 million in crypto while infiltrating projects and atte...
Crypto Card Spending Hits $600M Monthly as USDT Leads Global Surge
Crypto debit and prepaid card spending hit a record $607 million in March, more than tripling year-over-year as USDT held its lead but USDC ...