Stablecoins
Visa expanded its stablecoin settlement pilot to nine blockchains by adding Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc and Tempo, joining existing support for Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and Stellar. Annualized stablecoin settlement volume hit $7 billion — up 50% quarter-over-quarter.
AI
OKX rolled out the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), an open standard letting AI agents run full commercial cycles on-chain — from quotes and escrow to disputes — with backing from AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Base, Solana, Sui, Aptos, the Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, Paxos and Nansen.
Web3 Payments
Visa is partnering with WeFi, the crypto payments startup founded by JL van der Velde after he left Tether, to bridge stablecoin and on-chain settlement into Visa's global merchant rails.
Stablecoins
Western Union CEO Devin McGranahan said USDPT, its Solana-based US dollar stablecoin, launches in May. WU will use it to settle agent transfers without SWIFT, plus a 'Stable Card' for global consumers and a Digital Asset Network for crypto cash-out.
AI
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says AI agents need programmable money, with roughly $48M flowing through the x402 payments standard so far and about 95% of those transactions settling on Base.
Stablecoins
Ramp now offers 1:1, feeless USD/USDT onramps and offramps on Ethereum, Solana, and Plasma. A structural shot at every retail exchange that charges spread on the same pair.
AI Agents
Newborn Town announced NUSD Pay, an AI Agent Pay project focused on autonomous payment infrastructure and cross-border payment efficiency for AI agents.
Stablecoins
DoorDash is working with the Stripe- and Paradigm-backed Tempo blockchain to roll out stablecoin payouts for merchants and Dashers in more than 40 countries.