Digital currencies, programmable money and agentic payments are reshaping banking and the future of payments. Will banks take the lead or risk losing billions in fees?

Throughout history, control over money has been one of the most powerful levers of state authority. Rulers have long understood that whoever issues and manages the currency also commands the economy ...

The term programmable money refers to digital funds capable of executing logic based on a set of predefined conditions ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. When I first encountered the concept of programmable money, I realized we weren’t just ...

We stream data. We stream music. We stream video. Thanks to stablecoins, we are about to start streaming the whole economy. U.S. dollar stablecoins recently hit a milestone–they represent about 1% of ...

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