Circle received final approval from the OCC to establish a national trust bank, Circle National Trust, bringing its USDC stablecoin under federal oversight. This move could boost institutional confide…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said at VivaTech 2026 that generative AI is driving an explosion in smart contracts by enabling anyone to create them using natural language. Circle launched the Agent Stack …
Elliptic announced that Circle has joined its Agentic Design Partner Program to develop compliance solutions for autonomous, AI-driven financial activity, following an investment from Circle Ventures.…
Beehiiv, a newsletter platform startup, has rapidly scaled to challenge established competitors by offering integrated monetization and growth tools, attracting over 487,000 subscribers to its own new…
Mtok.market launched a non-custodial spot market for AI inference tokens, where buyers pay per chunk on-chain in USDC on Base and sellers host their own relays. The platform is designed for AI agents …
Circle published the official USDC specification for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), enabling AI agents to pay via HTTP 402 and EIP-3009. Separately, ERC-8183 'Agentic Commerce' by Virtuals Proto…
Ondo launched Ondo Perps, a derivatives platform offering up to 20x leverage on equity, index, and commodity perpetual futures with tokenized stocks as collateral. The platform is live for pre-alpha u…
Cloudflare and AWS have both integrated the x402 open protocol into their edge networks, enabling agent-to-service micropayments with stablecoin settlement. The protocol revives HTTP's 402 status code…
Sid Yadav, co-founder and CEO of Circle, discusses how content serves as a funnel and community as the core business model in an interview with Open Source CEO. Circle provides an all-in-one platform …
In the first half of 2026, major payment companies including Google, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, American Express, Ant International, and Circle have shipped infrastructure for AI agents to handle payme…
Mastercard launched agent-to-agent payments, validating the agentic payments market. However, AgentWallex argues that legacy card infrastructure is incompatible with agent-native operations, which req…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that dollar-pegged stablecoins like USDT and USDC reinforce US dollar dominance rather than challenging it, posing structural risks for emerging markets. …
Proof launched x401, an open protocol that uses cryptographic credentials to verify human authorization behind AI agents, with contributions from Circle, OpenAI, Google, and Okta. The protocol extends…
Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin launched in Japan on June 25, 2026, after receiving approval from the Financial Services Agency. The dollar-backed token is distributed through SBI VC Trade, leveraging Japan…
Google, IBM, and Circle have backed a new open standard called the Legal Context Protocol (LCP) to provide legal certainty and dispute resolution for AI-driven transactions. The protocol, unveiled by …
Coinbase has enabled agentic checkout across all its Payments APIs, allowing AI agents to autonomously spend crypto using the x402 protocol on Base. The protocol enables machine-to-machine stablecoin …
Alchemy, the web3 infrastructure firm, has integrated its AI payment middleware AgentPay into Visa's agent commerce network, enabling AI agents to conduct transactions across traditional payment rails…
Mistral AI has emerged as a major force in the AI startup landscape, with its models gaining significant traction and attention. The company's latest developments, including competitive pricing and st…
Visa and Mastercard have announced AI agent payment capabilities, but these solutions are retrofits of legacy card infrastructure, not true autonomous payment systems. Catena Labs, founded by Circle c…
Circle demonstrated an autonomous AI agent using its new Agent Stack to purchase a phone number, make a call, and settle the bill in USDC without human intervention. The demo highlights the potential …