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Stripe's OUSD Signals a Shift From Asset Competition to Network Competition in Stablecoins
Stripe's backing of OUSD, a yield-bearing stablecoin issued by Open Standard with multi-chain reach, suggests the battleground is moving from standalone token products to the distribution networks that can move them.
Apify Adds 20,000 Tools to x402, Massively Expanding What AI Agents Can Pay For
Apify is plugging more than 20,000 web automation and data extraction tools into the x402 payment standard, letting AI agents discover, pay for, and execute tasks without API keys or pre-funded accounts.
Cloudflare's x402 Monetization Gateway: Turning Every Edge Resource Into a Pay-Per-Call Endpoint
Cloudflare is opening a waitlist for a Monetization Gateway that applies the x402 payment standard to anything behind its edge network, letting AI agents pay for web pages, datasets, APIs, and MCP tools without API keys or billing accounts.
OKX Launches AI Agent Marketplace With Built-In Wallets and Autonomous Payments
OKX's new Onchain OS marketplace lets AI agents hold wallets, discover services, and execute transactions without human sign-off, betting that agentic commerce needs an integrated stack rather than bolted-on payment rails.
Visa Turns to AI Agents and Stablecoins to Modernize CEMEA Payment Rails
Visa says tokenized transactions in CEMEA jumped from 26% to 70% of volume since 2023, and it is now positioning AI agents and stablecoins as the next layer of payment infrastructure across Africa and the Middle East.
MoonPay Wires AI Agents Into Payments—One-Time KYC, Then the Machines Take Over
MoonPay launched infrastructure that lets AI agents spend from a user's wallet after a single identity check, sidestepping the KYC problem that blocks bots from traditional rails.
Orthogonal Raises $4.3M to Build a Service Discovery Layer for AI Agent Payments
Orthogonal secured a $4.3 million seed round led by Pantera Capital to build infrastructure that helps AI agents discover and pay for services, tackling the coordination problem in machine-to-machine commerce.
Virtuals Migrates $700M to Chainlink CCIP—Agent Economies Need Cross-Chain Rails
Virtuals is moving $700 million in agent assets to Chainlink's CCIP, betting that autonomous software needs cross-chain interoperability more than it needs a single-chain home.
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.