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Hamza Ahmed · 17 days ago Mastercard Buys Into Stablecoins: the $1.8B BVNK Deal Reshaping Payments Mastercard acquired BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure firm, for up to $1.8 billion. It's the first major listed payment network to own this technology… AdoptionStablecoinsMastercard
Hamza Ahmed · 20 days ago ChatGPT Can Now Buy Things for You: MoonPay's PayBox Brings Crypto Payments Into AI Chat MoonPay's PayBox lets you tell ChatGPT or Claude to buy something and it executes the transaction with real money, without ever holding your wallet keys.… PaymentsAI
Francesco Campisi · 20 days ago AI Agent Wallets: Why Crypto Giants Are Building for Machines, Not You MetaMask, Coinbase, OKX, and BNB Chain all launched AI agent wallets in weeks. Why are crypto giants building rails for an economy that barely exists yet, and… AIAI AgentsPayments
Francesco Campisi · 2 months ago Digital Euro: ECB Pushes for Payment Sovereignty in 2029 The ECB targets a digital euro pilot in 2027 and possible issuance by 2029. Euro stablecoins hold under 1% of the global market, making the case for action… FintechEuropePayments
