payments

Shopify announces that the Verifone Victa Mobile now runs Shopify POS, enabling barcode scanning and payments anywhere in store.

Airwallex raises $320M at $11B valuation and launches Airi, a secure wallet for AI agents, and T:ZERO, an automated finance function, enabling agents to handle payments autonomously.

The digital euro has cleared a key regulatory hurdle as the European Union seeks to reduce dependence on U.S. credit card payment networks.

Stripe launched Directory, a searchable catalog of businesses in its network, designed for AI agents and developers to discover and integrate services programmatically.

Bluerails Discovery provides infrastructure for AI agents to find and pay users.

A new on/off ramp product for high-volume stablecoin transfers is being built at Flex, offering competitive rates and volume-based discounts, launching in weeks.

AGIRAILS lets AI agents hire and pay each other using on-chain settlement.

Rain launches Agent Control Layer, a security layer for agentic payments in crypto and Web3.

Coinbase has launched a feature allowing AI agents to trade and make payments using its platform, expanding the capabilities of autonomous agents in the crypto space.

Explores whether AI agents are already making autonomous payments today and whether they will use traditional banking systems or adopt stablecoins and dedicated wallets for machine-to-machine transactions.

Visa has integrated its payment network into ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to search and purchase products on behalf of users at any Visa-accepting merchant, replacing OpenAI's discontinued Instant Checkout with support for spending limits and manual approval.

Visa and OpenAI partner to enable AI agents to make purchases on users' behalf using tokenized Visa credentials, with user-controlled spending limits and fraud monitoring, backed by Microsoft, IBM, Anthropic, Samsung, and Stripe.

OpenAI and Visa announced a collaboration to integrate Visa's payment network into ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to automatically complete shopping and payments on behalf of users, marking a significant infrastructure advancement for autonomous AI-driven commerce.

Easybilling is an AI-native billing and payments platform designed for usage-based AI products, enabling seamless monetization.

Discussion on the need for infrastructure-level control in agent-driven payments, proposing real-time card issuance as a cleaner model to prevent unauthorized spending.

Apple announced a new Siri in Camera feature at WWDC 2026 that lets users point their iPhone camera at a receipt, select items they ordered, and send Apple Cash payment requests to friends for precise bill splitting.

The UK Government Digital Service has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen as the payment processor for GOV.UK Pay, covering local authorities and police, with plans to introduce pay by bank options via open banking.

Partiful, the popular social events platform, is launching ticket payments directly on its platform, allowing hosts to sell tickets, set tiers and capacity, and handle payments, with Partiful taking a cut of sales as its first major monetization feature.

The author is building AgenC, an onchain marketplace where AI agents can find tasks, submit results, and get paid via escrow, with security measures like moderation and hardware wallet integration.

A user asks about real-world experiences with AI agents making payments, expressing concerns about fraud and unauthorized purchases.