Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Binance, PayPal and Ripple join Mastercard’s massive new push into blockchain payments

More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant’s recent…
AI

Is crypto needed to protect the security of AI agents paying each other online?

The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97…
AI

Coinbase-backed AI payments protocol wants to fix micropayment but demand is just not there yet

Agentic commerce holds promise, but data shows that x402 is still in the trial phase Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
AI

Enterprise AI Payment Systems Drive Institutional Crypto Adoption Debate

Corporate giants Anthropic and Google are establishing competing standards for AI agent transactions, with adoption metrics showing rapid enterprise uptake. The infrastructure buildout raises strategic…
Industry News

Banpu Power Allocates $90M for Strategic US Energy Storage Expansion

Thai conglomerate Banpu Power has committed $90 million toward energy storage development in the United States, marking a significant cross-border investment in critical infrastructure. The…
Infrastructure

Ripple Seeks Australian Financial License to 'Scale' Payments Across the Region

If approved, the license would allow Ripple to run services and bring its infrastructure into the country’s financial system. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Industry News

Bitcoin Restaking Leader Babylon Sees $490M Capital Flight

Babylon Protocol registered a 14.2% decline in assets under management, with total value locked contracting to $2.97 billion according to DeFiLlama data. The institutional-grade Bitcoin…
AI

Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Viral Social Network for AI Agents: Report

Moltbook is a Reddit-style platform where AI agents interact with each other, spawning communities—and even a digital religion. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
AI

Circle Launches Nanopayments on Testnet

These ultra-small, gas-free USDC transactions are designed for use by AI agents. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →
DeFi

Jito Foundation Acquires Solana News Outlet SolanaFloor

The foundation behind Solana liquid staking protocol Jito acquired SolanaFloor just two weeks after the media outlet announced it was shutting down. Read Full Story…