The race to build the payment infrastructure of the AI-agent economy is entering a new phase, with global payment networks and technology companies competing to define how machines will identify, authorize and execute transactions.
Visa has unveiled a new institutional stablecoin platform, marking another step in the payment giant’s expansion beyond traditional card processing towards blockchain-based financial infrastructure. The new tool is not a consumer payment product. The initiative is designed to support institutional participants managing stablecoin operations at scale instead.
This year, PaySpace Magazine Global team had a chance to visit Point Zero Forum, which ran alongside Swiss Fintech Week 2026, held in Zurich from June 19 to June 25. The two parallel events covered AI adoption in banking, agentic commerce, and the infrastructure for programmable money. As those topics are among the most-discussed within […]
PayPal USD (PYUSD) is now issued natively on Polygon through Paxos and made available via the Polygon Open Money Stack, the network’s payments infrastructure for moving money globally.
Singapore-based crypto and blockchain payments infrastructure platform Xweave has integrated Solana’s settlement layer into its institutional treasury product. The company announced the update at the Point Zero Forum in Zurich on June 24. This move targets one of corporate treasury’s oldest structural problems: the need to pre-fund accounts in multiple jurisdictions just to move money […]
Ukraine is among the global leaders in cryptocurrency usage; however, this has not yet led to a mass influx of global blockchain companies. Clear rules of the game, tax conditions, and regulatory certainty remain key factors for investors and technology projects. To understand what effective crypto regulation should look like and what prospects Ukraine has […]
How Stablecoins, AI, and Quantum Technologies are Igniting a Global Race to Control Finance
Fintech company Icon Solutions unveiled a demo of the IPF digital assets reference implementation helping banks to assess how they can use this payments infrastructure development framework for DLT-based digital assets support.
The gaming industry rarely looks the same from two different angles. From one perspective, it’s a story about expansion. From another, it’s about tightening regulations. Shift your view again, and the real pressure points appear: acquisition costs rising, payment friction increasing, product teams redesigning around compliance rather than creativity. SBC Summit’s conference agenda mirrors that […]
Crypto exchange Kraken has announced plans to launch the first CFTC-regulated perpetual futures contracts available to U.S. traders. The announcement arrives as parent company Payward accelerates a broader strategic pivot to a full-spectrum digital asset infrastructure company.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which processes the vast majority of U.S. securities transactions, has begun integrating the Stellar network (XLM) into its broader tokenized asset infrastructure strategy, according to industry reports published in late May and early June 2026. The move is part of DTCC’s exploration of blockchain-based settlement systems for traditional […]
Famous investor and head of BitMine Immersion Technologies Tom Lee describes an encouraging long-term scenario for Ethereum investors, while ETH itself has been falling for the whole year to date.
On June 3, crypto market traders woke up to a harsh reality of Bitcoin falling well below its critical support levels, triggering a trail of panic selling and dragging the market deeper into the bearish territory. Here’s why crypto is crashing right now.
Visa Intelligent Commerce and Basis Theory enable a new Agentic Cards API capability developed by Crossmint for agents in OpenClaw, Claude Code, Hermes, Zo Computer, and other agentic platforms to pay for things with supported Visa cards.
Block’s Cash App began rolling out support for USDC stablecoin transfers on May 27, initially reaching around a quarter of its nearly 60 million users, with full availability expected by the end of the week. The feature covers four blockchain networks Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and Arbitrum and carries no transfer fees at launch.
Falcon Finance and Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. have launched fUSD, a U.S. dollar payment stablecoin issued in compliance with GENIUS Act, federal framework for payment stablecoins enacted on 18 July 2025. The stablecoin is available on Ceffu’s institutional custody and collateral infrastructure.
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