Since the emergence of ChatGPT and chatbots, the artificial intelligence (AI) hype has evolved into “agentic payments,” billed as the next wave of internet commerce in which humans won’t be transacting. It will be AI agents paying each other: The idea is simple: build automated… Read More
PayPay, a SoftBank Corp-backed payments company that owns a 40% stake in Binance Japan, is seeking to raise as much as $1.1 billion in a U.S. initial public offering, Reuters reported Monday. The Tokyo-based company and a selling shareholder plan to offer 55 million American… Read More
We are moving toward an economic system in which software and devices transact with one another without human involvement. Instead of simply executing transactions, machines will be able to make decisions, coordinate with each other and purchase whatever they need in real time. Sensors and… Read More
Crypto payments firm BCB Group has appointed Tim Renew as its new CEO, naming the former deputy CEO to lead the institutional digital asset infrastructure provider through its next phase of growth. Co-founder Oliver Tonkin will move into the role of president, where he will… Read More
Agora, a startup founded by entrepreneur and VanEck heir Nick van Eck, is positioning itself for a stablecoin market that’s moving beyond crypto-native trading. While decentralized finance (DeFi) remains a key growth engine – Agora’s total value locked (TVL) grew 60% last month from DeFi… Read More
The firm said it has agreed to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, a blockchain-based payment infrastructure provider.
