Circle launched the Arc mainnet, an open Layer 1 blockchain for financial markets and agentic activity, with more than 100 applications and over 100 institutions and ecosystem builders live, and compl…
Circle launched the Arc Layer 1 mainnet on Wednesday with more than 100 institutional and ecosystem partners, including founding validators BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, Visa, Standard Chartered a…
Stripe introduced its Shared Payment Token (SPT) in October 2025 as a programmable, revocable primitive for agent-initiated transactions, and as of March 3, 2026 the platform supports Mastercard Agent…
The Cardano Foundation has joined Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program under its Blockchains track, engaging with Mastercard and other participants on cross-border money movement, B2B transactions, and…
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa announced in September 2026 that they are jointly developing a shared Know Your Agent (KYA) interoperability framework to verify AI agents authorized to make pay…
Mastercard forecast in a Sept. 8 report that one in ten people will routinely use AI agents to shop and pay by 2030, as payment companies build services for software that spends money on users' behalf…
The FTC will close the comment period on its personalized pricing enforcement policy on September 25, 2026, after denying the National Association of Convenience Stores' request for a 60-day extension…
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International announced a joint framework on September 9 called Know-Your-Agent (KYA) that lets their separate AI agent verification systems recognize each other, coordinated …
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard's agentic commerce framework lacks a unified merchant-side integration standard, leaving three competing verification protocols — Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol,…
Ant International partnered with Visa and Mastercard to develop an interoperable "Know Your Agent" framework for verifying and monitoring AI agents that initiate payments, Ant International announced …
Microsoft shipped nearly 1,000 patches on September 8, 2026, pushing its total software patches for 2026 past the combined totals for all of 2025 and 2024, according to Zero Day Initiative's Dustin Ch…
Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International, the global arm of China's Ant Group, announced a "know-your-agent (KYA) interoperability framework" this week to support agentic commerce operations. The three…
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard announced a Know Your Agent (KYA) interoperability framework in São Paulo on September 10, 2026, targeting cross-network operator traceability, shared certifica…
Ant International, Visa and Mastercard have begun developing a Know-Your-Agent (KYA) interoperability framework for AI-driven payments, working through Singapore's BuildFin.ai platform convened by the…
Meta launched Muse on Tuesday, a personal AI agent that operates inside WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook and can autonomously message friends, plan outings and complete purchases on a user's behalf, r…
Ant International, Mastercard and Visa launched an initiative on Thursday (Sep 10) to develop a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework for identifying and verifying AI agents that make purchases o…
Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa launched a joint initiative on September 10, 2026 to build a common trust framework for AI agents that make purchases on behalf of consumers, covering agent ide…
Mastercard launched Agent Connect, a single integration that lets merchants connect with AI agents, digital platforms, and payment providers, alongside an expanded Agent Suite and a new Agent Pay syst…
Mastercard introduced Agent Connect, a product within its expanded Agent Suite that gives merchants a single integration point for AI-powered shopping, supporting a three-stage journey of discovery, c…
India's National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is preparing a Unified Agent Protocol for UPI to allow AI agents to execute small digital payments without per-transaction user approval, accordin…