Digital Currency

MoneyGram has launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin called MGUSD, furthering its move into blockchain technology for payments. Soar Payments LLC, also known as SoarPay, announced the publication of “High Risk Merchant Accounts 101,” a guide to processing payments for high-risk and regulated businesses. Fifth Third Bank launched Report Phishing, a feature in …

Aurora Payments has renamed itself Flute and launched a payments platform that it says offers working capital, transaction reporting, and merchant servicing, along with payments, in a single account. Thunes said it has been selected by Canada-based payout platform Trolley to enable an expansion of Trolley’s international capabilities, including real-time payments to more …

Some 73% of online merchants are not ready for AI agents, while AI agents are at least in some cases recommending “unreliable merchants,” according to research from Ballerine, a specialist in merchant risk and compliance. The company conducted 47 interviews among card networks, acquirers, merchants, AI platforms, and payment service providers. …

Nium Pte. Ltd., a provider of cross-border payments technology, is working with Circle Internet in a collaboration using stablecoins for settlement and local currency for last-mile delivery of country-to-country transactions. The project aims to solve what the partners say is a longstanding problem—fast payments that can slow considerably when it’s …

The world’s payments systems are still a long way from adopting digital currencies as a standard medium of exchange, but day by day the path to that future gets clearer. Early Monday, a 6-year-old cryptocurrency network called Mesh said it is widening an existing integration with Base, a crypto app …

As cryptocurrency for payments continues to emerge, two digital currency companies separately are broadening uses for their products. Bitget Wallet, which bills itself as an “everyday finance” app, is expanding its QR code payments to Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia. Bitget Wallet says it will be integrated with national payment systems …

Open-banking specialist Plaid Inc. unveiled Plaid Guaranteed Payments, a bank payment service. Plaid said the service will evaluate each transaction in real time and return an approval decision within milliseconds. If Plaid approves the transaction, it will guarantee the settlement. If the payment fails, it will cover the loss and handle recovery, …

Blockchain-technology developer BTCS Inc. reported first-quarter revenue of $2.1 million, up 27% year-over-year but down from $7 million in 2025’s fourth quarter. The company’s net loss for the quarter widened to $69.1 million from $17.3 million in the year-ago period, though gross profit soared to $1 million from $100,000. Payments-technology provider PSQ Holdings …

It was probably only a matter of time before agentic commerce embraced cryptocurrency. Technology platform Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network early Friday announced W Agent, which the Singapore-based company calls a “new AI Agent skill.” That means the agents can find merchants, enter orders, and transact in stablecoins “end-to-end,” as the …