ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board
The ECB is seeking firms to explore AI agents and machinetomachine interactions as it prepares a separate digital euro pilot for 2027. Source：Cointelegraph
Zcash developers begin moving Tachyon code into faster private-payment software
Developers are starting to fold Project Tachyon into Zakura Common as they work toward a longterm target of more than 50,000 private payments a second.…
RedotPay completes financial audit as it presses ahead with U.S. IPO plans
The stablecoin payments company said the audit is part of its preparations to go public, disputing an August report that the listing had been put on hold.…
Kraken’s parent Payward is betting billions on becoming financial infrastructure, not just a crypto exchange
Kraken parent Payward is unifying trading, payments, asset management and institutional services on common rails, coCEO Arjun Sethi said. Source：CoinDesk
Tether says it had ‘limited’ exposure to bank linked to $84M US seizure
US prosecutors alleged that a payments business illegally transferred hundreds of millions of dollars at the direction of EQIBank, where Tether holds some…
Strategy seeks shareholder approval for daily preferred stock dividends
Strategy’s proposal would move STRC and its three other preferred stocks to daily dividend payments, following a similar move by Bitcoin treasury firm Strive.…
Crypto Biz: Wall Street and crypto fight for the same turf
Stablecoins and tokenized assets are pushing banks, exchanges and crypto companies into the same markets, from payments to stocks and ETFs. Source：Cointelegraph
Block brings Bitcoin Lightning payments to x402 for AI agents
Block joins Google, Microsoft, AWS and Coinbase in backing x402, an open payment standard enabling agentic AI commerce. Source：Cointelegraph
SoFi tie-up shows stablecoins can provide alternative blockchain settlement rail
SoFi dives deeper into payments as it moves its entire card program to blockchainbased settlement using its SoFiUSD stablecoin, with more than $25 billion in…
Solana Foundation hires Binance, Polygon veterans as it ramps up tokenized finance push
Rachel Conlan and Jamal Raees join as Solana aims to court institutions moving payments and assets onchain. Source：CoinDesk
Solana Foundation hires ex-Binance CMO and payments exec as new partnerships expand
Rachel Conlan will oversee institutional partnerships and ecosystem growth, while Jamal Raees will focus on stablecoins and tokenized deposits, following a…
HIFI raises $37M to expand stablecoin payments, tokenized markets
HIFI CEO Zach Walsh told Cointelegraph the $37 million Series A is the company’s first priced funding round, though HIFI did not disclose its valuation.…