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Payments · Mar 31, 2026 · 6 min read

The Stablecoin Settlement Layer Is Here

In a single week, Convera, Nium, OpenFX, and Mastercard all made the same bet: that stablecoins are the next generation of cross-border payments infrastructure.

Payments · Mar 15, 2026 · 5 min read

x402: The Internet Just Got a Payment Button. AI Agents Are Already Using It.

Coinbase built a payment protocol into HTTP itself. Cloudflare, Google, and Visa joined. The infrastructure for agent-native commerce is being laid in production.

Payments · Mar 3, 2026 · 11 min read

The Identity-Payment Convergence

Mastercard is retiring the card number. Visa is betting on biometrics. The EU is mandating digital wallets. For the first time, identity and payment credentials are merging into a single layer, and the fight over who controls it will reshape the industry.