Facebook paid its creators nearly $3 billion in 2025 — a 35% jump from the year before. Now some of those Meta creators will get paid in crypto. Related Reading Meta: A Second Try At Digital Payments Meta has begun rolling out USDC stablecoin payouts to select creators in the Philippines and Colombia, marking the…
Sui has launched gas-free stablecoin transfers, a move that goes directly at one of the most annoying pieces of crypto payments: needing the network’s native token just to move dollars. For experienced crypto users, gas is normal. For everyone else, it is friction. A user may have USDC or another stablecoin in a wallet, but…
Visa Stablecoin Treasury Engine Pushes Settlement Deeper Into Institutional Finance Visa has launched a stablecoin treasury engine for financial institutions, marking another step in the shift from crypto payment experiments to real institutional settlement infrastructure. The service is designed to let financial institutions settle merchant network balances using stablecoins such as USDC and EURC. That…
Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce TL;DR Alchemy-backed AgentCard is positioning itself as a virtual card and identity layer for AI agents. The product gives agents a way to make online purchases while users set limits and monitor spending. The launch connects crypto-style programmable payments with more familiar card-network rails. The bigger…
TL;DR Elon Musk promoted X Money with fiat payment features including Visa integration and peer-to-peer transfers. Dogecoin and other crypto assets were not included in the initial operational scope described in the promo. The distinction matters because DOGE traders have long speculated about eventual X payments integration. Introducing X Money with Visa card integration and…
NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive monthly compute credits instead of paying through traditional cloud billing or credit-card rails. According to the validated notes, the system gives users access to 43 hosted AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.…
TL;DR Singapore payments company dtcpay has completed a $25 million Series A. Vertex Ventures led the original round, with SBI Group joining as a strategic investor. The capital will support expansion of stablecoin and merchant payment infrastructure. Singapore-based digital payments company dtcpay has completed a $25 million Series A, bringing Japan’s SBI Group onto its…
TL;DR Tools for Humanity has launched World Money. The self-custodial app combines stablecoins with Stripe-powered fiat onboarding. Some features remain restricted depending on region. World is expanding beyond identity and into a much broader financial app. Tools for Humanity, the company behind the World ecosystem, has launched World Money, a self-custodial wallet built around stablecoin…
TL;DR Volante Technologies and Circle have announced a collaboration around stablecoin payment and settlement infrastructure. Volante plans to bring USDC workflows into the same payment platform banks already use for conventional rails. The work covers areas including minting, redemption, wallet registration, funding and wallet-to-wallet payments. Circle is bringing USDC deeper into the software stack banks…
TL;DR Citi and Coinbase have expanded their partnership with new stablecoin and fiat payment infrastructure for businesses. Citi clients can accept stablecoin payments while Coinbase provides blockchain rails and conversion into fiat. Coinbase business customers can also use Citi-powered virtual accounts that automatically move between fiat and stablecoins. Citi and Coinbase are connecting corporate bank…