dtcpay Completes $25M Series A As SBI Group Joins Stablecoin Payments Push
TL;DR Singapore payments company dtcpay has completed a $25 million Series A. Vertex Ventures led the original round, with SBI Group joining as a strategic investor. The capital will support expansion of stablecoin and merchant payment infrastructure. Singapore-based digital payments company dtcpay has completed a $25 million Series A, bringing Japan’s SBI Group onto its…
World Rolls Out World Money App With Stablecoins And Stripe Integration
TL;DR Tools for Humanity has launched World Money. The self-custodial app combines stablecoins with Stripe-powered fiat onboarding. Some features remain restricted depending on region. World is expanding beyond identity and into a much broader financial app. Tools for Humanity, the company behind the World ecosystem, has launched World Money, a self-custodial wallet built around stablecoin…
NEAR Adds Staking-Based Payments For AI Compute Credits
NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive monthly compute credits instead of paying through traditional cloud billing or credit-card rails. According to the validated notes, the system gives users access to 43 hosted AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.…
Visa Stablecoin Treasury Engine Pushes Settlement Deeper Into Institutional Finance
Visa Stablecoin Treasury Engine Pushes Settlement Deeper Into Institutional Finance Visa has launched a stablecoin treasury engine for financial institutions, marking another step in the shift from crypto payment experiments to real institutional settlement infrastructure. The service is designed to let financial institutions settle merchant network balances using stablecoins such as USDC and EURC. That…
Sui Launches Gas-Free Stablecoin Transfers At Protocol Level
Sui has launched gas-free stablecoin transfers, a move that goes directly at one of the most annoying pieces of crypto payments: needing the network’s native token just to move dollars. For experienced crypto users, gas is normal. For everyone else, it is friction. A user may have USDC or another stablecoin in a wallet, but…
Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce
Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce TL;DR Alchemy-backed AgentCard is positioning itself as a virtual card and identity layer for AI agents. The product gives agents a way to make online purchases while users set limits and monitor spending. The launch connects crypto-style programmable payments with more familiar card-network rails. The bigger…
Ripple’s $500M Raise And Institutional Ties Keep XRP Firmly In Place
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. A newly circulated academic paper, published in Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, argues…