Mastercard buys stablecoin firm for $1.8B, but AI on-chain payments are just $3.7M a quarter
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-28
Mastercard is acquiring a stablecoin company for $1.8B, fueling talk of AI payments moving on-chain. The take: it will happen, but it's very early — card networks process $24.8T a year, real stablecoin payments are under 1/60 of that, and AI on-chain payments were just $3.7M last quarter.
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