Why Stablecoins Are Finally Ready for Real Payments
From Financial News Network: Spotlight · 30:15
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In this episode of TWIF Spotlight: Fintech X AI, host Jillian Williams sits down with Sophia Goldberg, Head of Payments at Rain and founder of Ansa, which was recently acquired by the stablecoin infrastructure company.Sophia shares what took her from traditional payments into stablecoins, why she believes the technology has finally reached a point where major companies can take it seriously, and how Rain is using stablecoin rails to make global financial products easier to launch. They dig into the use cases where stablecoins already have a clear advantage, including cross-border payments, B2B payouts, stored value and programmable money.The conversation then turns to agentic payments. Sophia explains why AI agents may need a mix of stablecoins and traditional card rails, how programmable money could make it easier to give agents tightly controlled spending power, and why micropayments for data and compute could become one of the most compelling early use cases.Jillian and Sophia also tackle some of the harder questions still standing in the way, including fraud, identity, authorization and who takes responsibility when an AI agent makes the wrong purchase. Plus, Sophia explains why Rain helped launch the Agentic Payments Alliance and why cooperation across the industry will be essential to establishing the trust and standards needed for agentic commerce to scale.Follow The Fintech News NetworkLinkedinXInstagramTikTokYouTube
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