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Stablecoin growth bottleneck is banks, not blockchain

Stablecoin payments are expanding quickly in corporate transactions, but their main constraint is bank infrastructure rather than blockchain technology, the article said. Annualised stablecoin payments were about $390 billion at end-2025, or about 0.02 percent of the $208 trillion cross-border payments market. Banks still handle on- and off-ramps, compliance and local payment-network access, and reliance on a single bank is seen as a key operational risk.

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Anthropic expands Claude-based agentic commerce to target consumers and operators

Anthropic unveiled a blueprint to support building commerce agents based on Claude. It said retailers, marketplaces, e-commerce platforms and travel companies worldwide are creating shopping agents with Claude, and customers such as Shopify and Priceline have already launched agents for natural-language search, comparison and purchasing. The blueprint includes harnesses, patterns and guardrails, reference implementations, and a Claude Code plugin. It works across Claude API and major cloud environments, and includes shopping and merchant agents.

Crypto

Stablecoin payment card volume tops $1 billion in August, hits records for volume, transactions and users

Stablecoin-based crypto payment cards hit monthly records in August for transaction value, number of payments and users. Payment volume reached $1.076 billion, marking a second straight month above $1 billion. Payments totalled about 10.67 million and active addresses rose to more than 283,000. RedotPay led by value and transactions. Growth was notable in emerging markets, while activity remained concentrated in a few programs and the overall market stayed small.