📰 Dev.to · Tom Wang

A malicious arrayref crate ran build-time malware for 86 minutes. Six days later, Rust funded six maintainers. What payment developers should change.

Rust developer salaries, fintech hiring demand and fill times in 2026 — why payment firms are rewriting settlement engines in Rust.

FedNow's network intelligence API goes live April 28, giving payment developers real-time risk data for instant transactions across the US.

Ingenico and Paysafe bring stablecoin checkout to physical retail via WalletConnect and MoonPay — what payment and crypto developers must know.

Nevermined integrates Visa and Coinbase x402 to give AI agents delegated credit cards and stablecoin wallets — a new era for payment developers.

Ant Group unveils Anvita, a platform letting AI agents hold crypto assets and settle payments autonomously — what fintech and payment developers need to know.

Convera partners with Ripple to bring stablecoin sandwich settlement to $190B in cross-border payments — what fintech and crypto developers need to know.

Coinbase's x402 protocol transfers to the Linux Foundation with backing from Stripe, Cloudflare, and Visa. What payment developers need to know about HTTP-nativ

Google's Agent Payments Protocol joins ACP and x402 to form a three-layer agentic commerce stack. What fintech developers building AI agent payments need to kno

Visa's Intelligent Commerce SDK and VDCAP go live in April 2026, giving fintech developers tools to build secure agentic payment flows.

Stripe's Tempo blockchain and Machine Payments Protocol launch, racing Circle to build stablecoin settlement for AI agent commerce.

Mastercard acquires stablecoin platform BVNK for $1.8B, bridging crypto and fiat rails. What this means for fintech developers building payment systems in the U

Santander and Mastercard completed Europe's first AI agent payment. A fintech developer's breakdown of agentic commerce infrastructure and what it means for pay