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LINE NEXT to Launch Stablecoin Payments Service Unifi Pay in Third Quarter
LINE NEXT will launch Unifi Pay, a stablecoin-based payments service, globally in the third quarter, signaling a major messaging platform's move into blockchain-based commerce.
MPP vs x402: Two Protocols Are Racing to Wire AI Agents Into Payments—Here's How They Differ
Stripe and Tempo's MPP protocol uses HTTP challenge-response for multi-currency settlement, taking a different architectural path from Coinbase's on-chain x402 standard.
Spark Seeds $150M Into Uniswap v4 to Build a Shared FX Layer for Stablecoins
Spark and Uniswap are deploying $150 million into a Uniswap v4 hook that creates a shared foreign exchange layer for stablecoins, targeting banks and fintechs.
Animoca Brands Backs AllScale to Wire Stablecoin Payments Directly Into AI Agents
Animoca Brands invested in AllScale to build payment infrastructure that lets AI agents autonomously spend stablecoins, targeting microbusinesses and Web3 services.
Legal Context Protocol Wants to Give AI Agents a Courtroom—Here's How It Works
The American Arbitration Association is pitching a legal wrapper for autonomous AI agent payments, aiming to solve the problem of what happens when a machine-to-machine transaction goes wrong.
Paystack Wires AI Agents Into Everyday Payments—Africa Gets a Machine-Money On-Ramp
Paystack integrated AI agents into its payment infrastructure, letting bots assist with transactions across its African merchant network—a concrete step toward autonomous commerce outside the crypto-native bubble.
Paystack Wires AI Agents Into Everyday Payments—Stablecoins Are the Settlement Layer
Paystack integrated AI agents into its payment infrastructure, letting bots assist with transactions—but the real story is how stablecoins settle the value those agents move.
Animoca's Yat Siu Says 50–100 Billion AI Agents Will Run on Crypto Wallets—Banks Won't Open Accounts for Bots
Animoca co-founder Yat Siu argues that banks will refuse to bank AI agents, forcing 50 to 100 billion future bots onto crypto rails and stablecoins for autonomous commerce.
Circle Publishes USDC Spec for Machine Payments Protocol—Here's How AI Agents Will Settle
Circle released a formal USDC method specification for the Machine Payments Protocol, standardizing how AI agents and automated services pay each other without human intervention.
Coinbase Wires x402 Into Every Payments API—AI Agents Can Now Spend USDC at Under a Tenth of a Cent
Coinbase integrated its x402 protocol across its entire Payments API suite, enabling AI agents to autonomously spend USDC with transaction costs below $0.001.
Base MCP Gives AI Agents 13 New Onchain Skills—Including x402 Payments
Base MCP added 13 new app skills, letting AI agents trade, lend, mint NFTs, launch tokens, and settle x402 payments—expanding the surface area for autonomous onchain commerce.
MoonPay Bought an AI Accounting Startup—Here's What That Means for Stablecoin Infrastructure
MoonPay's acquisition of Entendre signals a shift from consumer payments to back-office automation, embedding AI agents that handle 93% of journal entries for stablecoin-native firms.