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…
Bernstein maintained an Outperform rating and a $140 price target on Circle Internet Group, implying about 59% upside after CRCL closed Friday at $87.98, as the brokerage expects $USDC adoption to sup…
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…
Ledger unveiled the Ledger Agent Stack on June 10, 2026, an open-source toolkit requiring physical confirmation on a hardware device before AI agents can move funds, keeping humans in the loop. The st…
Alphabet Inc. gained approximately $2 trillion in market capitalization over the past year, driven by investor optimism about its AI investments despite regulatory challenges and an $84.75 billion equ…
An AI agent wallet is a system that allows AI agents to autonomously spend money within predefined limits without human approval for each transaction. Protocols like Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Mas…
A single term, "settlement," now describes at least four distinct infrastructure layers for the agent economy, each with different trust assumptions and failure modes. AEON raised an $8M pre-seed to o…
Fireblocks Agentic Payments introduces a state-log approach for handling paid requests that remain on hold, distinguishing between payment verification and fulfillment decisions. The system records fi…
Fireblocks, Robinhood, MetaMask, and more than 20 other financial and crypto firms launched the Open Transaction Layer (OTL), an open-source initiative establishing shared protocols for identity, mess…