Reading up on stablecoins

Stripe announced 288 new products and features at Sessions 2026, focusing on programmable payments, AI economic infrastructure, fraud prevention, and global money management.

Agentic commerce will shift from retail payment rails to pre-negotiated B2B credit and stablecoins, as agents behave like local businesses with long-term vendor relationships.

Stablecoins enable criminals to launder money and evade sanctions through complex layering, swapping, and mixing that obscure the trail of funds.