Another defining week for PayFi and the partners building alongside us.
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@Morpho raised $175M co-led by
@paradigm,
@a16zcrypto, and
@ribbitcapital at a ~$2B valuation.
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@Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines, opening its global rails to AI agent transactions with sub-cent stablecoin micropayments and on-chain recorded permissions.
3️⃣ Huma launched Huma USDC Vault, curated by
@RockawayX, now live on
@Morpho. Total deposits surpassed $10M in under a day.
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@Visa is collaborating with
@OpenAI to build out payments infrastructure for agentic commerce, as well as modernizing its stablecoin settlement and credit card systems.
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@WalletConnect Pay is live on
@Solana. A coffee, paid on-chain in seconds. Proof that Solana is the payments chain.
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@Rain released Agent Control Layer, bringing programmatic spending guardrails to agentic payments.
7️⃣ Japan’s three biggest banks, MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho, plan to jointly issue a stablecoin by 2027, expected to be used for payments and cross-border transfers.
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@plumenetwork and
@ether_fi launched a collaborative flagship earn product built on institutional assets RWA vault.
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@jpmorgan,
@Citi,
@BankofAmerica, and
@WellsFargo are building a shared tokenized-deposit network through The Clearing House, targeting H1 2027.
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@SkyEcosystem launched a fixed-rate yield product built on
@pendle_fi.