Visa and Artemis say card rails can’t price AI-agent micropayments
A joint report points to Coinbase’s x402 traction and hybrid card-plus-stablecoin flows as the likely path.
A joint report points to Coinbase’s x402 traction and hybrid card-plus-stablecoin flows as the likely path.
Ualá previously named Tether as a participant but did not disclose the allocation, and Tether had not confirmed the figure by publication.
ETH also picked up a new gas-demand channel from Robinhood Chain’s reported $800M+ daily DEX activity.
The report was published July 16, 2026, but the accessible excerpt omits key case specifics like names, statutes, and amounts.
The packet provides the narrative framing but no terms, timeline, or confirmation that stablecoins are included.
Pollak said Base’s onchain-social push failed and the network will refocus on trading, payments and AI agents.
The fintech plans app and Revolut X access in the UAE while preparing an August USDT delisting in parts of Europe.
PayPal jumped 11.3% premarket as the report tied deal talk to expanding stablecoin payment rails.
The 40-member governance roster includes Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, Ripple, Google, AWS, and Cloudflare.
Dragonfly and FirstMark led the round as Velocity targets cross-border settlement and treasury operations for institutions.
Joint recommendations set a coordination track into the US payment stablecoin regime’s January 2027 effective date.
The plan aligns with February 2027 reforms that recognize distributed ledgers as securities registries, but pilot design details remain undisclosed.
The July 14 piece frames RLUSD as Ripple’s “XRP-native stablecoin,” with no launch or reserve details in the excerpt.
Finance minister Jose Gabriel Espinoza tied any rollout to AML safeguards as Bolivia remains on the FATF grey list.
Lawson will test yen stablecoin checkout in Tokyo in August as Netstars opens Stablecoin Pay to merchants at a 0.98% fee.
CryptoQuant data also shows elevated ERC-20 stablecoin activity since 2025 as payments use cases expand.
New AML measures also tighten scrutiny on 5 million baht cash deposits, FX cash exchanges, and gold trading.
The July 13 report confirms a pilot exists, but provides no details on scope, rails, or rollout timing.
Key details of the ruling are missing from the provided packet, but extracted claims point to Sharia compliance as a licensing requirement.
The contraction was concentrated in USDT and USDC even as regulated rivals USDG and USDGO expanded.