The future of money is being written in the plumbing, not the halls of Congress. On August 18, 2026, Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of 26 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, Solana, and others, all aiming to define the rules for agentic commerce. The industry is essentially treating the […]
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Visa is currently shopping for a new stablecoin settlement and over-the-counter (OTC) partner. While the move appears to be a routine vendor swap, it functions as a strategic decoupling. According to CoinDesk, which reviewed the request for proposal (RFP) issued on August 18, 2026, the payment giant is looking to fill a void left by […]
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The US Treasury has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for the GENIUS Act with a 60 day comment period. The rules cover only Section 3, which deals with payment stablecoin issuance, offer and sale. The NPRM follows two previous Treasury proposals on the GENIUS Act, one on illicit finance and one on equivalence […] The post Treasury issues GENIUS Act rulemaking for what qualifies as payment stablecoin issuance appeared first on Ledger Insights - blockchain for enterprise .
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The Two-Speed Regulatory Divergence in US Digital Assets On August 14, 2026, the SEC was scheduled to discuss its “innovation exemption” for tokenized securities under the “Reg Crypto” agenda. The meeting was canceled. The proposal – which would have given domestic crypto firms a conditional path to issue, custody, and trade tokenized equities, money-market funds, […]
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