🤖 As AI Agents start owning wallets, where are the new opportunities for users and devs?
AI is no longer just a chatbot — it's managing assets, initiating payments, and interacting with on-chain protocols.
Wallets, stablecoins, payment rails, permission systems, and security mechanisms may all be redefined in the AI Agent era.
Join Episode 60 of TinTinWeekly as we explore:
📌 Why do AI Agents need wallets?
📌 Real-world use cases for autonomous Agent payments
📌 How the role of wallets may evolve in the future
📌 Uncertainty and security risks
📌 The biggest opportunities around Agentic Wallets
🎙️ Speakers
▪️ @dixonbaoo|Marketing Lead @OurTinTinLand
▪️ @Will_7th|Co-founder of @moneyinmotion26
▪️ @diudiulee|VP of Marketing @Safeheron
▪️ @joezhoublack|Deputy Chief Editor @Foresight_News
▪️ @Zypher_Network
⏰ May 27 (Wed) 20:00 UTC+8
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Had a nice talk with @Finternetasia panel on the China–Africa payment corridor with a few practitioners from payments and stablecoin infrastructure.
One reality stood out: Chinese companies have already built deep into African markets — phones, EVs, e-commerce, digital services. The goods move. The money often doesn't. Cross-border settlement is slow, FX pricing is opaque, local fiat on/off-ramps are fragmented, and every country runs a different payment stack.
Stablecoins are starting to fill that gap. Not as a crypto product, but as an invisible settlement layer — quietly sitting behind the transaction.
My take from the discussion:
"Blockchain is one transfer rail among many. What really matters is how you bring it into the real world — together with regulators and financial institutions."
Africa may be one of the first markets where stablecoin payments get validated by real use. Not because the continent is more crypto-native, but because the payment friction is real enough to pull new infrastructure forward.
Africa, similar to APAC, cannot be condensed into a monolith.
@Shantnoo6 Saxsena (Encryptus) explains that different jurisdictions require different approaches.
Watch the full discussion on the China-Africa payment corridor, joined by @Will_7th Liao, @Yukiiiiiya Liu (@StableHunterAI ), Albert Wong (@osldotcom) and @ChinaJoePan (Finternet)
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What do you know about the China-Africa payment corridor?
Get the critical insights on the future of payments from 4 industry leaders: @Shantnoo6 Saxsena (Encryptus), Albert Wong (@osldotcom BizPay), @Yukiiiiiya Liu (@StableHunterAI ), and @Will_7th Liao (阿望老师). Their discussion on stablecoin adoption is a must-watch.
Hosted by @ChinaJoePan
Find the full Q&A now! Link in comments 👇
During @money2020 Asia 2026 we sat down with Sivakumar M (Siva), APAC Legal Director of @sumsub and @Will_7th from Money in Motion to discuss the seismic shifts in the digital asset landscape.
Hosted by @ChinaJoePan
Trailer out now 🔽
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LIVE TOMORROW 🚨
🌍 Out of Africa - Into the Future of Payments 🚀
From Africa to APAC, we are witnessing real infrastructure and real transactions. A leading bank in Kenya has built a stablecoin-based cross-border settlement system, marking a significant step forward in payment solutions. Join us for a live discussion and Q&A interview featuring the builder of this last mile solution and key figures in the payment industry to decode the new rails of the China-Africa payment corridor.
Date: Thu, May 14, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM (UTC+8)
Where: X, Youtube, Linkedin
Also live on X and Youtube @Finternet
💡 Hear insights from:
👤 Shantnoo Saxsena, CEO of Encryptus
👤 Albert Wong, SVP of @osldotcom 's BizPay
👤 Yuki Liu of @StableHunterAI
👤 @Will_7th (阿望老师), the leading payment blogger from China
📢 Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the future of payments and the innovations shaping the landscape! ✨
Spent a week between Hong Kong Web3 Festival and Money 20/20 in Bangkok. One observation kept repeating: the most crypto-native people in every room are now running the least crypto-looking companies.
The ones who left went to build AI. The ones who stayed are doing licensing, compliance, cross-border settlement — exactly the work crypto used to mock.
Web3's revolution didn't happen. But its infrastructure quietly slipped inside traditional finance through the back door: stablecoin payment corridors, KYC pipes, tokenized asset rails.
Meanwhile, "agentic payment" is plastered on every booth, but real transaction volume is still zero.
The tide went out. What it left behind is the blockchain infrastructure.
AI Payment is evolving beyond simple automatic transfers.
Our Mandarin panel during our afternoon tea side event for Hong Kong Web3 Festival went deep on the next frontier of AI Payments:
Speakers:
Peter Ip (BD Head of APAC, Virgopay)
Luis Lu (CEO Bitslab, Co-Founder of Claw Wallet)
Will Liao (Co-Founder, Money in Motion)
Eddie Xin (Head of Research, @osldotcom )
Top takeaways:
🔹AI payment is like L2/L3 autonomous driving 🚗starting with small-amount, B-side transactions.
🔹Stablecoins fill the "last mile" for emerging markets (India, Nigeria) needing USD access.
🔹The fastest-landing use case? AI buying its own tokens/API services (PaaS).
The future is the "agent as an entity".
More insights like this on Finternet. Full episode coverage of this panel coming soon