Fidelity Digital Assets, the crypto arm of Fidelity Investments, warned in a Wednesday report that AI-driven activity may not translate into more value for crypto investors, as competitive advantages …
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-…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, giving AI agents programmable, two-tier wallets with spending caps and verifiable identities, built on the x402 protocol. …
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…
AI agents have initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, with the broader ecosystem processing 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume, according to the…
Synchrony Financial has not confirmed any partnership with OpenAI to integrate its financing into ChatGPT shopping, according to research cited by the article. OpenAI launched its Agentic Commerce Pro…
Visa's Agentic Ready certification program, launched after a July 2, 2026, live agentic payment transaction in Germany by Worldline, ING, and Visa, aims to standardize issuer-layer readiness for agent…
A developer's analysis of AI agent payment disputes concludes that consumer protection depends on the payment method, with credit cards offering stronger protections than debit cards under US regulati…
Fintechs including Stripe, Ramp, and Brex are issuing virtual cards with per-transaction and per-merchant-category limits designed for AI agents, repurposing authorization holds as real-time circuit b…
Thredd, an AI-first issuer processing platform, has been selected by Cashi to power its new stablecoin spending and cashback card programme, now live in Hong Kong with an expansion into Mexico planned…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, during Agents Week, enabling AI agents to hold stablecoins and pay for access to web resources, with handle reservation op…
Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets on August 4, enabling AI agents to hold and spend money autonomously via the x402 protocol, with handle reservations now open and full funding features coming in…
Western Union launched Stablecard, a Rain-powered Visa card that lets users hold and spend dollar-backed stablecoins anywhere Visa is accepted, as part of its broader digital asset strategy that inclu…
Cloudflare launched cloudflare.id, a persistent identity tool and wallet that lets AI agents verify their identity and make payments, with transactions settling in USDC on Coinbase's Base layer-2 bloc…
Visa signed a definitive agreement to acquire BioCatch, an AI-powered behavioral biometrics company, for $2.4 billion in cash from Permira-advised funds and other shareholders, nearly doubling BioCatc…
MoonPay launched PayBox on July 23, going live July 28, to let ChatGPT and Claude execute crypto and card payments using passkey authentication and user-set spending limits, with Fortune reporting the…
Visa announced on Monday it will acquire Israeli threat intelligence startup BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash to strengthen its defenses against AI-driven fraud, which Visa claims costs the global ec…
Visa has agreed to acquire Israeli behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, as announced on 3 August 2026, to combat AI-powered fraud such as account takeovers and digital scams b…
Visa Inc. agreed to acquire BioCatch, an Israeli behavioral biometrics company, for $2.4 billion in an all-cash deal to enhance its fraud detection capabilities using AI-powered behavioral intelligenc…