Agentic Payments: Stablecoin News and Analysis
Reporting on software agents that can initiate payments, the protocols they use and the stablecoins used for settlement.
Reporting on software agents that can initiate payments, the protocols they use and the stablecoins used for settlement. 23 stories filed under Agentic Payments on NextCurrency.
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- Socure raises $156 million and buys Fravity as identity infrastructure moves toward AI-agent risk
- Coinbase Q2 2026: Revenue Miss, Record 10.3 Percent Market Share, Circle USDC Deal Auto-Renews
- Robinhood Chain Mainnet Goes Live with 2,000 Stock Tokens, Agentic Accounts, and 120 Country Reach
- The Agentic Finance Week: Coinbase, Robinhood, and Alipay Ship AI Wallets in 48 Hours
- Solana SDP and Pay.sh: The $2 Trillion Stablecoin Engine Becomes the Agentic Payment Layer
- x402 Adds Batched Settlement, Hits $100M Q1 Milestone as AWS Comes Online
- Circle Launches Agent Stack and Closes $222M ARC Token Sale at $3B Valuation
- Visa Makes Two On-Chain Moves in One Week: Tempo Validator Node and AI Agent Card Payments via x402
- Mastercard Completes ASEAN Rollout of Authenticated Agentic Transactions with UOB and Krungthai Card
- Linux Foundation Launches x402 Foundation at MCP Dev Summit, Accepting Coinbase Protocol as Open Standard
- x402 Crosses $50 Million in Cumulative Volume as ERC-8004 Registers 24,000 AI Agents
- Galaxy Digital Maps the Full x402 Agentic Payment Stack as AI Commerce Nears $5 Trillion
- MoonPay Open-Sources Universal Wallet Standard for AI Agents, Backed by PayPal, OKX, and Circle
- Circle and Stripe Race to Build AI Agent Stablecoin Payments on Competing Blockchains
- x402 and ERC-8004 Emerge as the Identity-Payment Stack for Autonomous AI Agents
- Payment Networks Face an AI Reckoning as Agentic Commerce Threatens Card Rails
- Santander and Mastercard Complete Europe's First Live AI Agent Payment
- Dexter AI Becomes First x402 Facilitator for Solana Smart Wallets
- Alchemy Launches Autonomous AI Agent Infrastructure via x402 Standard
- x402 Protocol Goes Enterprise
- Fintech Industry Predictions: Agentic Commerce, Interchange Wars, and Real-Time Payments in 80+ Countries
- Agentic AI Reshapes Business in 2026: From Walmart's 64% Vendor Negotiations to $24B Market by 2030
- Ethereum's ERC-8004 Unleashes AI Agents: Portable Identities and Verifiable Reputations Transform Autonomous Systems