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 …
Read More »A Crucial Stablecoin Bill Faces a Senate Committee Vote
With the Senate Banking Committee scheduled to take a vote Thursday on whether crucial stablecoin legislation should advance to the full Senate floor, the time for debating the bill’s pros and cons is drawing to a close. The 309-page Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which would set rules for digital …
Read More »Growth Accelerates for Circle’s Venture in AI and Stablecoins
Circle Internet Financial announced earlier this year its moves in agentic commerce, and now the stablecoin giant says its combined venture in both AI and digital assets is gaining altitude fast. “We believe we are going through the biggest platform shift in the history of the Internet,” said Jeremy Allaire, …
Read More »Crypto Meets AI in MoonPay’s New MoonAgents Card
It was only a matter of time before agentic commerce included transactions performed with digital currency. Early Friday, the 7-year-old New York City-based cryptocurrency platform MoonPay announced the launch of MoonAgents Card, a Mastercard that holders as well as AI agents can use to spend stablecoins at any e-commerce merchant …
Read More »Three Months In, the New PayPal CEO Sparks a Sweeping Reorganization
Barely three months since taking over the top spot at PayPal Holdings Inc., Enrique Lores is heading up a reorganization of the venerable payments company. Announced late Wednesday following a CNBC report earlier in the day, PayPal says it will migrate to a three-business operating model. The three are checkout …
Read More »Visa Looks to Expansion in Stablecoins And Agentic Commerce
Visa Inc. early Wednesday announced it is expanding support for agent-led commerce to Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, and also said it is widening its venture in stablecoins with the addition of five blockchains, bringing the total to nine. The five additional blockchains include Arc from Circle Internet Financial, …
Read More »Deluxe Named MRI Partner and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/29/26
Real-estate software developer MRI Software said it has named Deluxe Corp. its official processing partner for its rent-payment technology. Commerce.com Inc., the parent company of e-commerce platform BigCommerce, said it has integrated PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Store Sync technology in BigCommerce’s App Marketplace and Channel Manager. The move aims to make Commerce merchants’ …
Read More »76% of U.S. Companies Were Subjected to Fraud in 2025
It’s a sobering condition of today’s payments industry that fraud is a persistent, pervasive, and unwelcome counterpart to legitimate transaction activity. Testifying to that is that 76% of U.S. organizations experienced attempted or actual fraud in 2025, says the Association for Financial Professionals’ 2026 edition of its Payments Fraud and …
Read More »Circle Signs Thunes for Its New Managed Payments Platform
Bybit Launches Send Money in a Bid for Mainstream Users
As cryptocurrencies edge ever closer to the payments mainstream, they are fitting themselves into day-to-day usage in a bid to win user loyalty. One such application is money transfers, a market that has now attracted the world’s second largest crypto exchange by volume. The Bybit exchange, based since 2022 in …
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