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Korea's Regulators Confront AI Agents That Sign Contracts and Pay Without Humans
Korea's National Assembly is flagging legal gaps around AI agents that contract and pay autonomously, ahead of a September 11 forum on blockchain-based AI trust infrastructure.
NMI's Embeddable Payments: Card Rails Quietly Positioning for AI Agent Commerce
NMI's new low-code embeddable component suite explicitly targets software platforms and AI agents as payers, extending card-network acceptance infrastructure into machine-initiated transactions.
Ant International, Visa and Mastercard Start Writing the Rulebook for AI Agent Payments
The card networks and Ant International are co-developing shared standards for identifying and monitoring AI agents that initiate payments, a move that could set the identity layer for machine commerce before stablecoin rails define it.
Armstrong's Bet: The Agentic Economy Outgrows the Human One, and Coinbase Wants to Bank It
Coinbase's CEO argues machine-to-machine commerce will eventually dwarf human commerce, and the company is positioning itself as the bank for autonomous agents.
Coinbase and Moov Push Stablecoin Payments Into 1,000+ U.S. Community Banks
Coinbase's partnership with Moov gives more than 1,000 community banks and credit unions stablecoin acceptance, settlement and real-time funding just as the Senate prepares to vote on stablecoin legislation.
AWS Now Lets AI Agents Pay for Cloud Services in USDC
AWS has begun accepting USDC from AI agents through payment infrastructure built with Coinbase and Stripe, marking the first major cloud provider to plug autonomous software into stablecoin settlement.
Celo's Agent Marketplace: How x402 Payments Get Curated Into a Storefront for Machines
Celo is running a developer workshop with first access to a Celo-native agent marketplace where autonomous agents pay for GPU compute and APIs over x402 in stablecoins.
Mastercard Agent Connect: How Card Networks Are Wiring Merchants into AI Shopping Agents
Mastercard's Agent Connect gives merchants a directory that AI shopping agents can browse and buy from, extending card-rail commerce into autonomous purchasing.
Circle Buys Tazapay for $400 Million to Own the Last Mile of Cross-Border USDC Flow
Circle's first major post-IPO acquisition absorbs a Singapore payments firm with $25 billion in annualized volume and 60 banking partners, vertically integrating USDC issuance with local payout rails.
MoonPay PayBox Puts Cards and Crypto Wallets in the Hands of Claude and ChatGPT Agents
MoonPay's PayBox gives Claude and ChatGPT agents their own cards and self-custodial crypto wallets, extending agent payments from browsing to actually spending money.
MoonPay PayBox Puts Cards and Crypto Wallets in the Hands of Claude and ChatGPT Agents
MoonPay's PayBox gives AI agents in Claude and ChatGPT spending power over cards and crypto wallets, using a key structure designed so no single party can unilaterally move funds.
Why Solana Is Winning x402: Fee Markets and Finality for Machine Payments
x402 payment activity is concentrating on Solana, and the reason is mechanical: sub-cent fees and fast finality fit machine-to-machine micropayments better than slower, pricier chains.