Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce
Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce TL;DR Alchemy-backed AgentCard is positioning itself as a virtual card and identity layer for AI agents. The product gives agents a way to make online purchases while users set limits and monitor spending. The launch connects crypto-style programmable payments with more familiar card-network rails. The bigger…
Ripple’s $500M Raise And Institutional Ties Keep XRP Firmly In Place
Major Wall Street investors poured $500 million into Ripple in 2025 — a figure that reflects just how embedded XRP has become in the company’s financial backbone, and why analysts say Ripple has little reason to walk away from it. A newly circulated academic paper, published in Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, argues…