Stripe, Visa, and other incumbent payments and model vendors published overlapping agent-commerce interfaces through 2025–2026, including Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol with MPP and x402 support a…
Anthropic launched a blueprint for building commerce agents on Claude, reporting that retailers using such agents see carts up to 35% larger and shoppers 60% more likely to complete a purchase. The op…
Visa announced an enhanced version of its A2A Protect solution, which now provides real-time risk insights and a unified fraud score integrating Featurespace technology to help banks stop account-to-a…
Senator Mark Warner introduced the AI AGENT Act (S.5051) on July 21, 2026, which would require AI agents to register with the FTC before accessing platforms with 50 million or more U.S. monthly users,…
Visa, Mastercard, and Fiserv are founding members of the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of over 25 organizations announced by stablecoin payment infrastructure provider Rain on August 18…
MoonPay has expanded its PayBox payment vault to Grok, enabling users to connect self-custodial wallets and payment cards to the AI assistant for natural-language transactions such as buying stablecoi…
Ant Group CEO and Alipay chairman Han Xinyi said stablecoin payments are one of four major models in the emerging global AI payments market, according to a report by PA News citing Caixin. Han identif…
A developer has built an x402-aware crawler in Go, demonstrating how Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway and the x402 standard enable paid web scraping. The crawler handles HTTP 402 responses by complet…
AI agents completed 23.1 million stablecoin transfers via the x402 protocol in the past 30 days, with cumulative volume reaching 75 million transactions totaling about $24 million since launch, accord…
More than 100 companies, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, Adobe, Oracle, IBM, Hugging Face, and General Motors, signed an open letter on August 27, 2026, …
Visa has partnered with Dunamu, operator of South Korea's top crypto exchange Upbit, to develop stablecoin and AI-powered payment services, following a similar agreement with Shinhan Financial Group. …
Dunamu, operator of South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, announced a strategic partnership with Visa on August 28 to develop stablecoin-based payment solutions and AI-driven financial serv…
Dunamu, operator of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, partnered with Visa to develop financial and payment services using stablecoins and AI, unveiling a road map at Visa's Global M…
Dunamu, operator of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, announced on Aug. 28 a strategic partnership with Visa to explore stablecoin payments, international remittances, and AI-driven financia…
OpenAI and more than 100 major technology companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, issued an open letter on Thursday warning that the window for defending against AI-driven cyberattacks …
A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI, signed an open letter urging countries and organizations to strengthen cyber defenses before AI-powered attacks become more wi…
OpenAI and more than 100 companies, including Accenture, Anthropic, Capital One, Google, Microsoft, and Visa, released a letter Thursday warning that AI models could soon enable sophisticated cyberatt…
Britain plans to give the Bank of England a new statutory objective to support innovation in stablecoins and digital money, while keeping financial stability as its primary responsibility, through an …
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets during its Agents Week, giving AI agents a stablecoin balance and a cloudflare.pay handle for paying APIs, data, and content, but only handle claiming works tod…
Injective has joined the x402 Foundation as a core member, bringing its sub-second transaction finality to a payment protocol backed by AWS, Google, Visa, and Mastercard. The x402 protocol is now live…