Coinbase upgrades x402, letting AI agents pay with any ERC-20 token and introducing Sign-in-with-X for frictionless on-chain transactions.

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Circle Nanopayments enables gas-free USDC transfers as small as $0.000001, built on Circle Gateway infrastructure. Batched on-chain settlement bundles thousands of transactions, with Circle covering ...

Brian Armstrong and CZ argued on March 9 that AI agents could become major transaction-makers, with crypto emerging as the most natural payment rail. Coinbase ...

CZ predicts AI agents will make 1 million times more payments than humans, with crypto as the go-to rail for autonomous transactions.

As AI agents take their place in the economy, the question of which money they use is a choice that will echo for decades.

NEW YORK, NY-India has joined the UN Honour Roll by promptly paying its 2026 dues of $35.187 million to the cash-strapped organization, according to spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. India sent in on ...

Circle's Nanopayments lets users send as little as $0.000001 in USDC with zero gas fees. Here is how the new system actually works.