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The Race to Own the Digital Australian Dollar Is On — and the Banks Are No Longer the Only Runners
A regulated Australian-dollar stablecoin has already moved $1.4 billion on-chain in a single month. With the US GENIUS Act reshaping the global backdrop, the contest to define digital AUD is quietly heating up at home.
Stablecoins Get Their Rulebook: The GENIUS Act Hits the Back Office
A year after it became law, the GENIUS Act is being turned into detailed rules by America's bank regulators — 100% reserves, redemption guarantees, anti-money-laundering obligations. The unglamorous compliance grind now moving into bank back offices will decide who actually gets to issue dollars onchain.
The Grace Period Ends 30 September: Australian Crypto Faces Its Licensing Reckoning
ASIC's sector-wide relief for digital-asset businesses expires at the end of September. From that moment, stablecoins, wrapped tokens and crypto wallets are financial products in the eyes of the law — and operating without a licence stops being a grey area.
AI Agents Now Have Wallets: Inside the Alliance Visa and Mastercard Just Joined
A new coalition wants to standardise how AI agents spend your money — and the two biggest card networks on earth just signed up. Here is what agentic payments really mean, and why Australian merchants should care.
Regulators Are Quietly Building the Rails for Digital Payments
From the SEC’s new crypto framework to Europe’s “report once” reform, the past week saw regulators shift from policing digital payments to designing the rules they’ll run on.
Machines Are Now Paying Each Other: Agentic Stablecoin Payments Hit a 2026 High
Automated agent-to-agent stablecoin transfers jumped to 8.7 million in a single week — a look at the tiny, machine-driven payments quietly reshaping the internet’s money layer.
Visa and Mastercard’s Stablecoin Strategy: Bet on Every Horse
The card giants are joining Circle’s Arc blockchain and buying up crypto infrastructure — a deliberate “multi-coin, multi-chain” play to stay essential no matter which stablecoin wins.