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AWS Plugs Coinbase's x402 Into CloudFront, Letting Publishers Charge AI Agents in USDC

AWS turned on AI traffic monetization inside AWS WAF on Monday, letting any site behind Amazon CloudFront charge AI agents…
Jun 19, 2026
Infrastructure

GoMining challenges Jack Dorsey's Square with payments system designed around bitcoin

GoMining unveiled a software development kit and programmable access for its bitcoin payment protocol GoBTC Pay, allowing merchants to accept…
Jun 19, 2026
DeFi

Europe’s MiCA July deadline puts Binance access and USDT liquidity on the line

Europe’s crypto rulebook is squeezing much of the industry before it has even fully taken effect, with Binance and Tether…
Jun 19, 2026
Payments

Global $2.75B payments deal shows stablecoins moving into the rails they were meant to bypass

The $2.75 billion acquisition points to token settlement moving inside regulated payment networks before it replaces them. The post Global…
Jun 18, 2026
Institutional

U.S. agencies seek stablecoin customer-ID rules akin to banks in new GENIUS Act pitch

The Federal Reserve, Treasury and other regulators have issued a proposed rule that would set identification standards, and it’s now…
Jun 18, 2026
Payments

Jerome Powell Supports Fed's New Stablecoin Policies—But Chair Kevin Warsh Abstains

The proposed rulemaking establishes how U.S. crypto companies will have to screen stablecoin customers after the passage of the GENIUS…
Jun 18, 2026
Institutional

Federal Reserve Moves to Close Stablecoin Loopholes With New Customer ID Rules

Bitcoin Magazine Federal Reserve Moves to Close Stablecoin Loopholes With New Customer ID Rules The Federal Reserve proposed requiring stablecoin…
Jun 18, 2026
DeFi

Ledn adds Tether Gold as loan collateral, expanding Bitcoin-backed lending model

Ledn’s addition of Tether Gold lending comes as tokenized commodities expand, with the sector accounting for nearly 17% of the…
Jun 18, 2026
AI

Alchemy's AI-driven identity and payment service gains access to Visa network

The AgentCard integration with Visa Intelligent Commerce allows AI agents built on models from any provider, including OpenAI or Anthropic,…
Jun 18, 2026
DeFi

Solana’s $1B USDC mint collides with DeFi app shutdown as users face unfinished Drift recovery

Users face a September exit deadline while fresh Solana minting signals show liquidity moving faster than recovery systems. The post…
Jun 18, 2026