Plain-English guides and engineering notes on stablecoin payments — settlement, gas abstraction, network choice, and payouts across twenty chains.https://plaidly.io/en-ushttps://plaidly.io/blog/coinbase-commerce-alternatives/https://plaidly.io/blog/coinbase-commerce-alternatives/A merchant's comparison of Coinbase Commerce alternatives — BitPay, NOWPayments, BTCPay Server, Stripe's crypto pay-ins and Plaidly — by custody, coins, chains, fees and integration effort.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomparisonscoinbase-commercegatewaysstablecoinspaymentsmerchantsMarcus Leehttps://plaidly.io/blog/how-to-accept-stablecoin-payments/https://plaidly.io/blog/how-to-accept-stablecoin-payments/How to accept stablecoin payments as a business — choosing coins and chains, custody, hosted checkout vs API, webhooks and reconciliation — plus what your customers see when they pay in stablecoins.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTstablecoinspaymentscheckoutsettlementmerchantsguidePriya Ramanhttps://plaidly.io/blog/stripe-crypto-payments/https://plaidly.io/blog/stripe-crypto-payments/What Stripe's crypto payments actually cover — USDC pay-ins settled to fiat, stablecoin payouts, Bridge — the fees and limits, and when a stablecoin-native payment API is the better fit.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcomparisonsstripeusdcstablecoinspaymentssettlementJordan Colehttps://plaidly.io/blog/pay-per-use-api-ai-agents/https://plaidly.io/blog/pay-per-use-api-ai-agents/How to build a pay per use API for AI agents — machine-to-machine stablecoin billing that charges and settles per request, without cards or invoices.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTapi-monetizationmicropaymentsmachine-to-machineai-agentsagenticMarcus Leehttps://plaidly.io/blog/six-agents-bought-vps-usdc/https://plaidly.io/blog/six-agents-bought-vps-usdc/An engineering case study in AI agent payments: six autonomous agents rented VPSes and settled real USDC on Solana devnet through the Plaidly API.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentscase-studyusdcsolanamcpagenticMarcus Leehttps://plaidly.io/blog/mcp-payments/https://plaidly.io/blog/mcp-payments/MCP has no payment primitive. A practical guide to MCP payments — three ways to charge for MCP tool calls, with x402 and payment sessions on testnet rails.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTmcpmonetizationai-agentsdevelopersagenticPriya Ramanhttps://plaidly.io/blog/what-are-agentic-payments/https://plaidly.io/blog/what-are-agentic-payments/What are agentic payments? How AI agents pay for things with virtual cards, crypto wallets and x402 — what's real today, what's hype, and who's liable.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTagenticfundamentalsai-agentspaymentsstablecoinsJordan Colehttps://plaidly.io/blog/x402-protocol-explained/https://plaidly.io/blog/x402-protocol-explained/How the x402 protocol works, request by request: the 402 challenge, signed payment payloads, the facilitator's verify/settle role, and where it fits vs AP2.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTx402http-402protocolsai-agentsagenticPriya Ramanhttps://plaidly.io/blog/crypto-payouts-marketplaces-agents/https://plaidly.io/blog/crypto-payouts-marketplaces-agents/What a stablecoin payout is and how it works: paying out sellers, creators and AI agents in USDC or USDT — fast, global, programmatic, and cheap enough to skip batching.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTpayoutsmarketplacesagentsstablecoinsautomationMarcus Leehttps://plaidly.io/blog/multi-chain-payment-networks/https://plaidly.io/blog/multi-chain-payment-networks/Twenty chains sound great until you have to pick. This guide breaks down how to think about speed, fees, liquidity and customer habits so you offer the right networks at checkout.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTmulti-chainnetworksethereumsolanatronbasePriya Ramanhttps://plaidly.io/blog/how-gas-abstracted-checkout-works/https://plaidly.io/blog/how-gas-abstracted-checkout-works/Asking customers to hold a separate gas token is the biggest reason crypto checkouts fail. Gas abstraction removes that friction. Here's what it is and how it works under the hood.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTgascheckoutuxaccount-abstractionfundamentalsMarcus Leehttps://plaidly.io/blog/usdc-vs-usdt-vs-pyusd/https://plaidly.io/blog/usdc-vs-usdt-vs-pyusd/USDC, USDT and PYUSD are all dollar stablecoins, but they differ in issuer, chain coverage, liquidity and how you settle them. Here's how to choose what to accept and what to settle in.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTusdcusdtpyusdstablecoinssettlementPriya Ramanhttps://plaidly.io/blog/what-are-stablecoin-payments/https://plaidly.io/blog/what-are-stablecoin-payments/A plain-English guide to how stablecoin payments clear on-chain, why merchants skip chargebacks, and what it takes to accept them across twenty chains with a single API.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTstablecoinspaymentsusdcsettlementfundamentalsJordan Cole