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NEAR Adds Staking-Based Payments For AI Compute Credits

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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.… Continue reading NEAR Adds Staking-Based Payments For AI Compute Credits→

Visa Stablecoin Treasury Engine Pushes Settlement Deeper Into Institutional Finance

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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… Continue reading Visa Stablecoin Treasury Engine Pushes Settlement Deeper Into Institutional Finance→

Sui Launches Gas-Free Stablecoin Transfers At Protocol Level

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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… Continue reading Sui Launches Gas-Free Stablecoin Transfers At Protocol Level→

Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce

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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… Continue reading Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce→

Stablecoins Go Mainstream As Meta Rolls Out Creator Payouts In Philippines, Colombia

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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. 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 company’s return… Continue reading Stablecoins Go Mainstream As Meta Rolls Out Creator Payouts In Philippines, Colombia→

Ripple’s $500M Raise And Institutional Ties Keep XRP Firmly In Place

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Major Wall Street investors poured $500 million into Ripple in 2025 — a figure that reflects just how embedded XRP has become in the company’s financial backbone, and why analysts say Ripple has little reason to walk away from it. A newly circulated academic paper, published in Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, argues… Continue reading Ripple’s $500M Raise And Institutional Ties Keep XRP Firmly In Place→