Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/ant-international-visa-masterca…
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140 companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves (Kyle Baird/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/406736/visa-stripe-coinbas…
Miami-based Cyclops, which sells an infrastructure platform that bundles crypto and stablecoin services to payments companies, raised a $20M Series A (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/15/exclusive-cyclops-20-millio…