The platform offers three API modules to help issue RWAs, support payments, and enable onchain swaps supported by 20 launch partners.
MoonPay has introduced the Open Wallet Standard, a framework that lets AI agents hold assets, sign transactions, and make payments.
Major Wall Street investors poured $500 million into Ripple in 2025 — a figure that reflects just how embedded XRP has become in the company’s financial backbone, and why analysts say Ripple has little reason to walk away from it. Related Reading: Another Bitcoin Buy Coming? Saylor Sparks Speculation With ‘Orange Dots’ Post A newly circulated academic paper, published in Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, argues that XRP’s role in Ripple’s cross-border payment network makes abandonment not just unlikely, but structurally difficult. The paper was brought to wider attention by XRP community researcher SMQKE. The Case Against Cutting Ties Ripple Payments — formerly known as RippleNet — uses XRP as a bridge asset to move money across borders quickly and cheaply. According to the paper, that dependency runs deep. XRP helps guard against double-spending risks while cutting the delays that plague traditional payment systems. Banks like Bank of America and Santander are among the financial institutions connected to Ripple’s network. That kind of institutional footprint makes any sudden pivot away from XRP a complicated proposition, reports indicate. ‼️ WHY RIPPLE WILL NEVER ABANDON XRP‼️ Read closely.????????️ “Because RippleNet DEPENDS much on XRP, the XRP will coexist with Ripple Labs.”✅ “In this way, as long as Ripple Labs is widely used for its cross-board real-time payment business, the XRP market will ALWAYS work as a… pic.twitter.com/9YZvBLoExt — SMQKE (@SMQKEDQG) March 13, 2026 The paper stops short of declaring XRP untouchable. It points to regulatory tightening and rival technologies as real threats that could reshape how Ripple operates in the long run. Still, its central conclusion is that XRP and Ripple are likely to remain tied together for the foreseeable future. XRP’s Broader Ambitions Beyond payments, Ripple has explored positioning XRP as a neutral go-between for central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. The idea is that XRP could connect different national digital currencies without requiring the parties to rely on traditional financial intermediaries. That ambition signals something important. Ripple isn’t treating XRP as a legacy product to be quietly retired. Based on reports, the company has been actively expanding its use cases rather than winding them down. CEO Brad Garlinghouse has publicly described XRP as the company’s guiding purpose. His exact words, often repeated in the XRP community: “XRP is our north star.” Related Reading: XRP Moves Into ‘Scarce Zone’ As Exchange Supply Dries Up Stablecoin Launch Adds A New Layer Ripple’s rollout of RLUSD, its own stablecoin, has fed speculation that XRP might be getting sidelined. Some observers read the move as a sign that Ripple is hedging its bets with a more stable asset. Ripple executives have pushed back on that reading. They maintain XRP is not being replaced — that RLUSD operates alongside it, not instead of it. The academic paper largely supports that position. It frames XRP as central to both network security and overall system efficiency, not as a technology on its way out. Whether that holds as stablecoins gain ground across the broader payments industry remains an open question. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView
Visa CLI provides automated bots with the ability to pay for web services without having to manage API keys or needing human interaction.
RedStone will provide continuous FX and stablecoin feeds enabling applications to price and settle transactions in local currencies.
PayPal has expanded access to its PYUSD stablecoin to 70 markets, enabling wallet access, transfers, and rewards for eligible users.
The blockchain firm is adding custody, payments and brokerage tools for digital asset management and tokenization as it plans to apply for regulatory approval from the central bank.
The brave new world of autonomous, micro-transacting AI agents is where programmable cryptocurrencies will shine, according to stablecoin experts.
Mastercard’s crypto partner push is really a plan to keep stablecoins inside its network Mastercard is trying to make sure the stablecoin era still needs its card services. On Wednesday, the company launched a program with more than 85 crypto-native firms, payments providers, banks, compliance vendors, custody companies, exchanges, and infrastructure groups. On its face, […]
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The Singapore-based company provides services that bridge traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure.
Ripple has launched a share buyback of up to $750 million at a $50 billion valuation, a source told The Block.
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 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools and data. Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol launched in April 2025 with 50 partners and scaled to more than 100 supporting companies […]
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Agentic commerce holds promise, but data shows that x402 is still in the trial phase
As regulation advances and institutions adopt blockchain settlement, stablecoins are expanding beyond crypto trading into payments infrastructure.
Financial services firm Aon accepted USDC and PYUSD stablecoins for Coinbase and Paxos's insurance premium payments.
Funding will support product expansion, licensing and compliance as the company scales a platform for cross-border stablecoin payments.
The approval places Strike among a small group of firms authorized to operate in the state under NYDFS supervision.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has recently given conditional approval to several stablecoin issuers to become banks.
Ripple is sharpening its argument that it can help institutions move value across traditional rails, stablecoins, and blockchain networks. On March 2, DTCC’s National Securities Clearing Corporation updated its MPID directory to add Ripple-owned “Hidden Road Partners CIV US LLC” for its first trade. The entry appears under the OTC column. A day later, Ripple […]
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Kraken has cleared a regulatory hurdle that crypto firms have chased for years: direct access to the Federal Reserve’s core payments infrastructure. On March 4, the exchange said its Wyoming-chartered bank, Kraken Financial, has been granted a Federal Reserve master account, allowing it to settle US dollar payments directly over Fed rails instead of routing […]
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Tether has landed a Big Four accounting firm’s name on a reserve report tied to its US strategy. On Feb. 27, Deloitte issued an independent accountant’s report on Anchorage Digital Bank’s “USAT Reserve Report,” an attestation covering USAT, a US dollar token issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, National Association, in collaboration with Tether. The development […]
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Truckers will now be able to exchange TCS utility tokens for PYUSD on the INX-Republic exchange, providing them with quicker cash flows.
The product, when first unveiled in 2025, was initially focused on Central and South American countries and is currently live in 18 countries.
Even as crypto sentiment remains weak, JPMorgan analysts see the possible mid-year approval of U.S. market structure legislation as a positive catalyst.
The U.K. bank would rival JPMorgan and others in using decentralized technology for banking services.
On Feb. 25, t54 Labs announced that Ripple was a strategic investor in its $5 million seed round investment. t54 describes itself as the trust layer for the fast-rising agentic economy. The latest artificial intelligence move is small in dollar terms, but larger in what it signals about where Ripple sees the next fight in […]
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MoonPay Agents is a non-custodial, permissionless financial infrastructure for AI agents that move money.
The Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments firm RedotPay is reportedly exploring a U.S. IPO that could raise over $1 billion, per Bloomberg.
At 7:12 a.m. on a random Tuesday in February, an email lands with a subject line that looks harmless enough: “Your tax forms are ready.” For Maya, a part-time designer who bought a little Bitcoin during the 2021 hype, then sold small chunks across a couple of apps when life got expensive, it feels like […]
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Vitalik Buterin just published a research proposal that sidesteps the question everyone keeps asking: can blockchains run AI models? Instead, the research claims Ethereum as the privacy-preserving settlement layer for metered AI and API usage. The post, co-authored with Davide Crapis on Ethereum Research, argues that the real opportunity isn't putting LLMs on-chain. The real […]
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