The same Senate that couldn't agree on lunch just pushed Bitcoin past $80,000 by almost passing a bill. Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on expectations that the CLARITY Act will finally get a Senate vote, despite Senator Tillis stalling the bill just days earlier
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The AI subscription you signed up for is charging you for gift cards you never bought—and the payment processor says it's your problem.
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While USD stablecoins dominate headlines, Europe is quietly building the rails for its own digital currency sovereignty, and it's choosing Solana as the fast lane.
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The bridge between TradFi and onchain yield just got a lot shorter. Coinbase partnered with Superstate to launch CUSHY, an institutional fund offering onchain access to stablecoin lending yields
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The seventh-largest economy just drew a red line through the stablecoin settlement layer, and it's not about consumer protection.
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The last roadblock just became a launch pad, and the banks know it. The CLARITY Act finalized stablecoin yield rules after Coinbase and Senate leaders reached a breakthrough compromise, clearing the main obstacle to passing landmark US crypto legislation.
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While everyone else is building AI agents to trade memecoins, one startup just raised $72 million to solve the problem that keeps those agents from actually working. Fun raised $72 million in Series A led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire to build infrastructure converting between crypto and fiat
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The compromise that gets stablecoins legal also walls off the part banks care about most.
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The credit card economy just opened its doors to non-human customers. MoonPay launched the "MoonAgents Card," a Mastercard-network debit card that lets AI agents spend stablecoins directly from onchain wallets
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While crypto Twitter argues about whether Ripple's monthly unlock is a sell signal, three G7 governments are quietly building payment rails on XRP.
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AI agents just got their first credit cards, and they're spending stablecoins on the legacy payment rails that crypto was supposed to replace. Tether-backed Oobit launched Agent Cards, virtual Visa corporate cards that let AI agents spend USDT without human approval for each transaction
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Stripe just handed AI agents a credit card, and the checkout button will never be the same. Stripe launched Link, a digital wallet that lets users connect payment methods and authorize AI agents to make purchases on their behalf through approval workflows.
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The world's largest stablecoin issuer is no longer content printing dollars—it's funding the rails that move them. Tether led a $14 million Series A round for Belo, a Latin American fintech with 3 million users offering a digital wallet for local currencies and digital dollars
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An exchange just gave your future AI employee the ability to negotiate deals, hold funds in escrow, and settle invoices without you in the loop. OKX published an open-standard payment protocol designed for autonomous AI agents to handle quoting, escrow, and settlement in business transactions
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The payments company that moves $14 trillion a year just quintupled its blockchain settlement infrastructure in one day.
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The first crypto exchange just built a payment rail where no human needs to approve the invoice, contest the charge, or sign the receipt. OKX launched the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), a system designed to handle full AI-to-AI commercial transactions including quotes, payments, and disputes.
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AI agents can now pay each other without asking permission from the humans who made them. Kite launched its mainnet and Kite Agent Passport, an identity and payment infrastructure built for autonomous AI agents to transact independently
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A credit card company with 13 million customers just picked the network everyone said was too risky for enterprise. Shinhan Card partnered with Solana Foundation for a proof-of-concept testing stablecoin payments in real-world retail scenarios
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The company that powers 90% of online checkout flows just decided AI agents need their own payment rails. Stripe announced new AI tools and a Google partnership targeting payments and commerce infrastructure for the agent economy
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Corporate treasurers just got permission to park cash in blockchain rails without calling it crypto. Stable Sea integrated WisdomTree's tokenized Treasury fund, letting businesses allocate idle cash to government-backed securities via blockchain infrastructure
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