Crypto wallet provider Exodus is rolling out a new “Exodus Pay” feature in its self-custodial storage wallet with aw very simple goal in mind: to making digital assets usable for everyday payments, even for beginners.

Visa has launched Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that lets AI agents browse, select, and pay for products on behalf of users across Visa and non-Visa cards.

Crypto card transactions hit $607 million in March, more than three times the amount from a year earlier, with USDT still the most used stablecoin.

Bitget Wallet has launched QR-based crypto payments across Asia-Pacific, letting users pay with stablecoins like USDT and USDC at local merchants directly from their self-custodial wallets.

Convera has partnered with Ripple to use stablecoins for faster cross-border payments across 140 currencies in over 200 countries. The partnership uses a “stablecoin sandwich” model, letting businesses send money quickly without handling crypto directly.

Nium lets businesses issue stablecoin-funded cards that work at Visa and Mastercard. The platform converts stablecoins to fiat and handles compliance and settlement in one system.

Mitsubishi will use JPMorgan’s blockchain to speed up global payments. The network also supports asset tokenisation, showing rising corporate use of blockchain.

OnePay, backed by Walmart, has added over a dozen crypto tokens including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, Cardano, Bitcoin Cash, and PAX Gold to its app, aiming to make digital assets easy for everyday customers.

Ripple is testing its RLUSD stablecoin in Singapore’s MAS BLOOM sandbox to automate cross-border trade payments. The pilot with Unloq aims to replace slow manual processes with programmable payments on the XRP Ledger.

In a striking coincidence, Visa and Stripe-backed Tempo both unveiled similar tools that allow users to execute AI-driven payments, signaling that the race to power autonomous “agent commerce” is officially on.