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Bank of England tests trade finance payments using stablecoins and digital pound

The Bank of England is testing a payments structure that uses stablecoins and a simulated digital pound in cross-border trade finance. The trial, run at its Digital Pound Lab, is designed to check whether stablecoin payments and digital pound settlement can work in a single flow. It uses no real customer funds. The central bank said the exercise does not signal future policy direction or endorse any company or product, and it has not decided whether to issue a digital pound.

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MoonPay launches PayBox payment vault for Claude and ChatGPT as AI agents execute transactions

MoonPay has launched PayBox, a payment vault that works inside Claude and ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to prepare transactions on users’ behalf. Users can complete payments and move funds after passkey approval. The product stores crypto wallets and payment cards and supports token swaps, bridging and transfers to DeFi protocols such as Aave across Solana and Ethereum-compatible chains. It also supports the x402 open payments protocol and uses a security model combining multi-party computation and trusted execution environments.

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Uniswap holds first vote to activate v4 pool protocol fees

Uniswap governance is voting on a proposal to activate protocol fees for certain v4 pools. It is also voting on a separate proposal to expand v2 and v3 fee collection on Robinhood Chain. Both proposals have moved to a final on-chain vote running from July 19 to July 26. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said on X that, given current volumes including on Robinhood Chain, the impact on UNI burns would be significant.