Your AI agent can now pay with Visa 😏
We've integrated @Visa Intelligent Commerce into @agentcardai giving AI-agents a Visa-issued token so it can make online purchases on your behalf.
Book a date night.
Order groceries.
Renew a subscription.
No checkout screen.
https://t.co/gNatnBm1Ik
following very strong customer demand, real-time payments to china 🇨🇳 are now live on @lightspark's grid accross b2b, b2c and c2c use cases
we are making money move like data on the internet, one market at a time ⚡️
full coverage below ⬇️
We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Visa to enable stablecoin and Bitcoin-backed Visa debit cards across 100+ countries.
Through Lightspark’s Grid platform, financial institutions, fintechs, and businesses can now offer their customers Visa cards funded by:
> Stablecoins (USDC and others on Solana, Base, and Spark)
> Bitcoin via Spark or Lightning
> Fiat currencies including USD and EUR
This means cardholders can spend their digital or fiat balances at 175M+ Visa-accepting merchants worldwide, seamlessly bridging on-chain accounts to everyday purchases.
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Is everyone talking about the same thing when they say “interoperability”?
It’s a word we hear everywhere – in conversations about tokenisation, digital assets, instant payments and blockchain-based infrastructure. But its meaning often shifts depending on who you ask.
At Swift, interoperability is about more than connectivity. It’s about delivering choice and convenience – safely, and at scale.
By reducing fragmentation and complexity across the financial system, we can help enable a more seamless global experience. Find out more: https://t.co/R1LsmXFEV7
#Interoperability #DigitalAssets
⚡️INSIGHT: GRAYSCALE NAMES 5 DEFI TOKENS WITH “REAL VALUE”
Grayscale listed $HYPE, $AAVE, $UNI, $SKY and $MAPLE for SOLID relative value based on fundamentals.
DeFi protocols have generated nearly $25 BILLION in fees since 2023, with $UNI and $HYPE standing out for returning almost 100% of earnings to holders.
The Zebec SuperApp is live!
Payroll for individuals is now available on desktop, built on Zebec rails, powered by @circle’s USDC, and utilizing ZBCN for fees.
The mobile consumer version and enterprise-grade app will be released in the coming weeks.
🧵 Zebec, Stellar, Circle, MoneyGram, Stripe and Tempo may be building something much bigger than payroll.
They may be laying the foundations for financial infrastructure designed for both humans and machines.
At the center sits @StellarOrg.
Not as a speculative asset, but as a settlement and asset layer capable of moving regulated stablecoins, tokenized assets and digital dollars globally in seconds and at negligible cost.
@Zebec_HQ adds a distribution layer on top of that infrastructure.
@circle contributes another important piece.
Zebec recently joined Circle’s Arc Testnet, working alongside major financial institutions to explore more efficient USDC settlement.
Combined with native CCTP support on Stellar, USDC liquidity can move seamlessly across multiple blockchain ecosystems without relying on wrapped assets or fragmented liquidity pools.
In practice, liquidity originating on one blockchain could potentially settle and be distributed on Stellar while remaining fully fungible within the broader USDC ecosystem.
The Zebec-Stellar rollout itself represents the payroll layer.
But when combined with Circle’s CCTP on Stellar, MoneyGram access, embedded wallets and Stellar’s support for MPP, it begins to resemble a broader financial stack designed not only for employees, but eventually for autonomous software as well.
Employers can stream salaries continuously in $USDC, $EURC or potentially $MGUSD over Stellar instead of relying on delayed payroll cycles and legacy banking rails.
From there, value can move in three directions.
First, to people.
Through @MoneyGram’s integration with @StellarOrg, employees and contractors can convert digital dollars into local cash at more than 450,000 locations worldwide, even without a bank account.
Second, to people who prefer to stay entirely digital.
Funds received through @Zebec_HQ can be spent directly through cards, embedded wallets and consumer payment applications.
This is also where Zebec’s Stripe connection becomes important.
Through Privy, a @stripe company, Zebec can abstract away much of the wallet friction that usually keeps traditional users away from Web3 payroll.
Employees do not need to manage browser extensions or private keys.
They can access embedded wallets through familiar login methods, while the infrastructure underneath remains programmable.
And third, to machines.
@stripe and Tempo introduced the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), reviving HTTP 402 “Payment Required” to enable autonomous agents to pay for APIs, SaaS subscriptions, datasets and digital services.
Stellar subsequently introduced support for MPP through its SDK.
With server-sponsored fees, AI agents do not need to hold native gas tokens.
They simply transact in stablecoins.
Three destinations.
• Humans can cash out.
• Humans can spend digitally.
• Machines can transact autonomously.
One settlement layer.
Infrastructure, not speculation.
@StellarOrg increasingly looks less like a payments network and more like a settlement layer for tokenization, stablecoins, payroll, remittances and the emerging machine economy.
None of these companies have publicly presented this architecture as a unified roadmap.
But the individual building blocks already exist.
@StellarOrg@Zebec_HQ@circle@stripe@MoneyGram
We're excited to be working with @tokenGBP, the first UK-based British pound stablecoin, to bring native GBP payments to Zebec.
Issued by FCA-registered BCP Technologies, tGBP is now live on the Zebec SuperApp for cards and real-time streaming with enterprise payroll support to follow.
This expands the list of supported stablecoin options available to businesses and individuals using Zebec globally.
Everyone talks about AI agents.
But what does an agent-friendly blockchain actually look like?
If agents are going to transact, coordinate, and operate autonomously, they need more than intelligence.
They need infrastructure.
• Autonomous agent-to-agent settlement
• Deterministic, sub-second finality
• USDC-native payments
• Predictable execution costs
• Machine speed Nanopayments
• Programmable compliance
• Onchain coordination
These aren't just technical features.
They're the requirements for an economy where software can exchange value without constant human intervention.
Arc is positioning itself around that reality.
The question is:
What's the most important piece of infrastructure AI agents still lack today?