Payments
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An agent that remembers who burned it
The TwiceShy team probed 46 Sui pay-per-call routes with unpaid POSTs, found 19 (41%) gave no 402 challenge, and built a buying agent that pays USDC and remembers which sellers deliver.
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Letting an agent pay for and renew its own API access with x402 and a budgeted wallet
A builder let an agent renew its own $29 30-day API access via x402 USDC payments from a budget-limited wallet; the guardrails refuse payment when budget runs out.
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WirexOne Visa Card Security Vulnerability
Users report Wirex's forced migration to WirexOne removed PIN-change on Visa cards, raising a card security concern worth checking.
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Westpac to Limit How Much Customers Can Send to Crypto Exchanges, With No Exceptions
Westpac will limit customer transfers to crypto exchanges from Dec. 1, possibly rejecting payments after A$10,000 a month.
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From rivals to partners: Polygon and Solana team to bring stablecoin payments to banks
Polygon and Solana are teaming up to connect Solana stablecoin activity with Polygon's bank and payment infrastructure.
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Polygon Extends Bank-to-Stablecoin Payment Stack to Solana
Polygon extends its bank-to-stablecoin payment stack to Solana, connecting Solana wallets to bank funding and payouts.
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Polygon Extends Its Stablecoin Payments Infrastructure to Solana
Polygon extends its stablecoin payments infrastructure to Solana, with cross-border firm Kira among the first adopters.
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Polygon expands Open Money Stack to Solana, after Tron rollout
Polygon extends its Open Money Stack to Solana after Tron, alongside its acquisition of Coinme.
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Polygon adds Solana to payment stack linking bank accounts, crypto and payouts
Polygon added Solana to its payments platform for bank funding, cross-chain transfers and stablecoin payouts.
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Itaú Files Crypto Notice With Brazil’s Central Bank, Days Before Banks’ Window Shuts
Itaú filed a formal notice with Brazil's central bank to keep its crypto trading and custody services under the new rules. A major bank's regulatory route worth knowing.
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Aviva’s £50m tokenized fund: What changes for investors
Aviva Investors adds a £50m tokenized share class to its sterling liquidity fund on the XRP Ledger.
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Crypto Long & Short: What happens when an AI agent pays for the wrong thing
Explains that x402, the payment standard AI agents use, has no dispute mechanism when an agent pays and receives something wrong.
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Ripple expects $900 million annualized product revenue run rate as institutional business expands
Ripple expects a $900M annualized product revenue run rate by end of 2026, with RLUSD at $2.5B; company-reported targets.
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Nearly 90% of large businesses are embracing tokenized cash to speed up payments: DBS
DBS survey finds stablecoins lead tokenized cash instruments in use or planned by large businesses.
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Anchorage Positions Itself as Custody Backbone of US-Mexico Stablecoin Corridor
Anchorage Digital Bank expanded its Bitso deal, placing custody under both sides of the US-Mexico stablecoin remittance corridor.
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Ripple, BNY explore using the XRP Ledger to finance approved invoices
BNY adds XRP and RLUSD to custody, while Ripple and C2FO test invoice settlement on the XRP Ledger.
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Bitget Wallet Brings USD and EUR Virtual Accounts to 100 Million Users
Bitget Wallet added USD and EUR account numbers that convert incoming bank transfers to USDT or USDC, with outbound transfers still to come.
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I gave Claude Code a $40 budget and one prompt, and it bought a domain and hosting and shipped its own website
A Nevermined employee let Claude Code spend a $40 delegation to buy a domain and hosting and ship a website; it made 41 onchain payments totaling $21.67.
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Ripple gets a final go-ahead to launch its own U.S. national trust bank
The OCC has approved Ripple National Trust Bank, a notable step for crypto firms entering US federal bank charters.
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I counted one week of x402 payments on Base. Buyers who come back are rare, and they don’t buy what I expected
A Reddit x402 seller tracked a week of USDC payments on Base across Coinbase's catalog of about 1,775 seller wallets; returning buyers were rare, and his own two tools got 8 paid calls from about 9,300 requests.
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What I learned testing agents that pay for things (all bugs below are fixed or public)
A test harness builder reports recurring payment bugs in agent payment flows, like lost replies causing double payments, across about 30 projects on test tokens.
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Tokenized Deposits vs. Stablecoins: What JPM Coin and USDC Holders Own
Explains what holders of USDC and JPM Coin actually own and can redeem, clarifying tokenized deposits versus stablecoins.
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Hong Kong’s Biggest Bank Puts a Stablecoin in 3 Million Wallets
HSBC activated its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin in PayMe, a real test of bank-issued tokens for everyday payments.
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Netanyahu Considering Crypto Plan to Dodge Banking Sanctions on Israel
Netanyahu reportedly asked for a blockchain plan to route around possible banking sanctions on Israel, days before the election.
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What 50+ Bids on Agent Job Boards Taught Me About the Agent Economy
A registered AI agent with its own Base wallet bid on agent job boards for crypto work and earned $11.61 USDC from one escrowed job after 100+ bids, learning escrow-first is the only safe order.
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AI-Agent Payments Explained: Mastercard Agent Pay, AP2 and x402
Explainer on AP2, x402 and Mastercard Agent Pay, separating spending authority from payment requests and settlement.
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Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand central banks expand cross-border stablecoin initiative involving Ripple, Visa and Mastercard
Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand central banks expand the BLOOM cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit initiative with Ripple, Visa and Mastercard.
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HSBC launches Hong Kong dollar stablecoin for retail payments
HSBC is rolling out a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, RedCoin, to PayMe retail users, with plans for tokenized investment uses.
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Malaysia, Thailand join Singapore’s cross-border stablecoin push
Malaysia and Thailand join Singapore's BLOOM initiative to coordinate cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit use.
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HSBC rolls out its first HKD stablecoin RedCoin to retail users
HSBC is rolling out RedCoin, its first Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, to PayMe retail users for peer-to-peer and merchant payments.