Blockchain development company Alchemy has debuted a tool that lets AI payment systems work together. AgentPay is designed to provide interoperability to agentic payment systems, company officials told CoinDesk Wednesday (April 8). “AI agents aren’t assistants anymore. They’re buyers,” Alchemy says on its website. “OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are shipping...
Financial systems have typically evolved through a combination of innovation and crisis. It tends to go like this: New technologies promise efficiency, only for their risks to become apparent under stress. Over time, institutions, regulations and practices adapt. Now, a growing body of research by...
The Solana Foundation has introduced a set of measures to bolster its ecosystem security. The new initiatives, announced Monday (April 6), are being led by security firm Asymmetric Research with funding from Solana. “Solana Foundation has a long history of dedicating resources to ensure that...
A growing number of CFOs are taking a closer look at stablecoins, as practical tools for moving money. The interest is apparent in “Stablecoins Gain Ground: Why CFOs See More Promise There Than in Crypto,” a March PYMNTS Intelligence data book that tracks how middle-market...
Tokenization is playing an increasingly prominent role in the financial world. But a recent report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns that tokenization might make it too difficult for regulators to deal with a financial crisis. “From the financial stability perspective, tokenization presents a...
Crypto going corporate is shining a spotlight on the sector’s more technical components. The growing institutional embrace of blockchain finance is prompting some Fortune Global 500 companies to get into the nitty gritty of the industry’s decentralized architecture and begin running their own validator nodes...
The attack on Drift, a crypto exchange that offers perpetual futures on the Solana blockchain, remained underway late Thursday (April 2). A banner across the top of Drift’s website said late Thursday: “Drift is being paused until further notice due to irregular activity in the...
The idea of Wall Street’s “closing bell” could soon become a thing of the past. As blockchain technology shifts deeper into global finance, tokenized stocks — basically digital representations of traditional stocks — are moving from the crypto space to major financial institutions, The Wall...
At the end of 2025, when a consortium of ten global banks announced they were exploring a stablecoin tied to G7 currencies, the news carried the weight of inevitability. It suggested that traditional finance was finally prepared to institutionalize digital money at scale. In the...