The statements by Alla Bakina, Director of the Bank of Russia’s National Payment System Department, are supported by the low adoption of these cards in the Russian Federation, which stands at less than 17%. Mir Cards and other payments have substituted Mastercard and Visa. Mastercard and Visa Card Adoption Falls Under 17% in Russia While […]
Britain has imposed sanctions on several crypto-related firms and financial networks linked to Russia, including entities registered in the United Arab Emirates and Georgia, as part of a new crackdown on sanctions evasion tied to Moscow’s war economy. According to…
Escalating tensions and stalled diplomacy between Russia and the U.S. diminish prospects for a near-term peace agreement in Ukraine.
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Escalating tensions and planned strikes in Kyiv diminish prospects for diplomatic resolution, impacting market sentiment on peace deal likelihood.
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Heightened geopolitical tensions could lead to increased regulatory scrutiny on crypto markets, impacting global financial stability.
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Heightened geopolitical tensions could lead to increased regulatory scrutiny on crypto markets, impacting global financial stability.
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A new report from Keyrock, a global crypto investment group leading in market making, asset management, OTC, and options trading for digital assets, finds that artificial intelligence (AI) agents have settled more than $73 million across approximately 176 million transactions since May 2025, while four competing payment architectures have taken shape, backed by some of […]
The escalation may intensify regulatory scrutiny on crypto markets, impacting stablecoin compliance and potentially compressing valuations.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) agents autonomously spending money online is still a tiny market, but some of the world’s largest tech, payments and crypto firms are already racing to build the infrastructure for it, Keyrock said in a new report. The crypto trading and investment firm estimated that AI agents settled over $73 million across roughly 176 million transactions on blockchain rails between May 2025 and April 2026. The volumes remain negligible compared to traditional finance (TradFi). Visa, for example, alone processes $14.5 trillion annually. But the significance lies less in the headline U.S. dollar value and more in how quickly the infrastructure stack is forming, the report argued. Global firms such as Coinbase (COIN), Stripe, Google (GOOG) and Visa (V) all rolled out competing systems for machine-to-machine payments. The broader