News
Fhenix Goes Live on Arbitrum: What Payments Still Reveal
Fhenix brings encrypted computation to Arbitrum. For payment users, the important distinction is between hiding an amount and hiding the relationship between wallets.
Michael Gu
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Payments
Articles tagged Payments.
News
Mastercard Adds a Risk Score Before Stablecoins Move On-Chain
Mastercard is bringing card-style risk intelligence to stablecoin payments before settlement. The result is a new control point between a bank instruction and an irreversible on-chain transfer.
Michael Gu
News
USDC Redemptions Are Free—But Speed Still Has a Price
Circle has removed the fee from its slower USDC redemption lane, but near-instant cash-out normally costs 5 basis points unless a business qualifies for an exemption or credit.
Michael Gu
Crypto Project
Velocity: The $38M Stablecoin Treasury Bet
Velocity’s $38 million Series A shows stablecoins moving into enterprise treasury software. We examine the founder transition, product evidence, investor mix and hidden dependencies.
Michael Gu
Crypto Project
Kite AI: The $18M Bet on Agentic Payments
Kite combines an AI-agent identity layer, app discovery and stablecoin settlement. Its mainnet and token are live, but agent commerce is still an experimental market.
Michael Gu
Crypto Project
Sapiom: The $35M Bet on AI Agent Infrastructure
Sapiom has expanded from agent payments into runtime and inference routing. Its funding is real and its usage claims are large, but it is AI infrastructure—not a DeFi protocol or token.
Michael Gu
Guide
Stablecoins Explained 2026: Pros, Cons, Risks and Regulation
Learn how stablecoins work in 2026, including fiat-backed, crypto-backed and algorithmic designs, their benefits, depeg and reserve risks, and current US, EU and Hong Kong regulation.
Angela Wang