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Not all stablecoins are created equal. This deep dive breaks down four stablecoin architectures, six major issuers, the full pay and get-paid workflow, and the global regulatory landscape — everything a CFO or treasury leader needs to build an enterprise-grade stablecoin payment program.

OpenAI's Instant Checkout converted at one-third the rate of Walmart's native path. That single data point settles the debate. AI has taken the traffic layer. It will not take checkout — not because of technology, but because of liability, licensing, and the hard structure of payments infrastructure.

As many of you know, I keep a close eye on Visa’s strategic signals and market machinations. Like many investor relations narratives, you learn to separate the wheat from the chaff, the sizzle from the steak (sorry for all the Western U.S. alliterations or maybe we should say “ 淘沙得金 (Táo shā dé jīn)” Sizzle, Sand & Chaff Visa trumpets about using AI usage for internal applications and network: As of April 2026, Visa (V) is experiencing a massive surge in AI token usage, near