ForgeMesh, a firm that tracks timelines across rail telemetry, grid filings, and catalog censuses, has opened a case file on a twelve-day period in August when a federal banking regulator, a major clo…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said USDC holds a 99% share of payments made by artificial intelligence systems, according to Coinfomania. Bernstein set a $140 price target on Circle stock (CRCL), implying …
Agentic onchain payments hit a 2026 high with 8.7 million x402 stablecoin transfers in the week starting August 17, more than double the 4.1 million recorded the prior week, according to Token Termina…
On August 18, 2026, stablecoin infrastructure company Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance, a 26-member coalition including Visa, Mastercard, Circle, the Solana Foundation, Uniswap Labs, Fiserv…
Coinbase demonstrated an internal Slack bot on August 18, 2026, that enables AI agents to autonomously purchase services using USDC micropayments via the x402 protocol, settling transactions in about …
Fasset, a stablecoin neobanking platform, has raised $68 million in a Series C funding round led by SBI Group, valuing the company at $1 billion. The round brings Fasset's total funding in 2026 to $11…
USD Coin (USDC) accounted for over 99.99% of all agentic transfer volume on Coinbase's x402 protocol in the past 90 days, according to recent data. The protocol processed over 160 million cumulative t…
Coinbase's x402 payment protocol has processed over 165 million payments worth $50 million, with about 99% using USDC, according to Lincoln Murr, Coinbase's head of AI product. Major payments players …
On August 18, 2026, Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of 26 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, and Solana, to define technical and operational st…
Tokenized AI stocks on Solana have surpassed $465 million in cumulative trading volume, while Circle minted over $10 billion in USDC on the network in a single month, according to Coinfomania. Trading…
Kyriba, a treasury management system provider serving over 4,000 customers including Fortune 100 companies, announced at KyribaLive in Las Vegas a collaboration with Circle to integrate USDC into its …
Rain, a stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) with founding members Visa, Mastercard, Circle, Solana, and Remitly to develop standards for AI-agent-…
Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance with more than 25 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Solana, Avalanche, Circle, Fireblocks, and Chainalysis to establish standards for AI agent tr…
Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure platform that has secured over $14 trillion in transactions, joined the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) as a founding member on August 18, alongside Visa, Ma…
Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has published a roadmap for 'agentic features' to enable AI agents to operate as sellers in digital commerce, focusing on identity, reputation, validati…
Tether International's first full independent audit by KPMG US confirmed a $6.814 billion reserve surplus as of December 31, 2025, backing its $183 billion USDT supply, and CEO Paolo Ardoino is now ou…
Circle, the company behind USDC, publicly ran an experiment called 'Steve' in which eight autonomous AI agents, each with its own USDC wallet, predicted the final three matches of the 2026 World Cup a…
AI agents are increasingly being adopted by corporate America, with Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire saying there will eventually be billions of agents providing work and labor, and a new Accenture report fi…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire predicts billions of AI agents will soon join the workforce, enabling firms to orchestrate agent labor across boundaries. Circle, which uses AI agents alongside human workers…
Shopify Inc. reported Q2 2026 revenue of $3.58 billion, beating consensus estimates of $3.45 billion, and projected Q3 revenue growth in the low-thirties percentage range year-over-year, compared to a…