{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Web3 Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"Stablecoins, Autonomous Payments and the Dollar’s Next Act","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2154,"description":"\n This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/stablecoins-autonomous-payments-and-the-dollars-next-act.\n Money became programmable and payments now run without humans: two chapters of one race where almost everything still settles in dollars. \n Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3.\n You can also check exclusive content about #stablecoins, #x402, #ai-agents, #autonomous-ai-agents-payment, #programmable-money, #digital-dollar, #payment-automation, #crypto-regulation, and more.\n \n \n This story was written by: @javiermateos. Learn more about this writer by checking @javiermateos's about page,\n and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\n \n \n \n Every great economic leap was really a leap in transactionality, and money always had to evolve to keep up — the latest step being programmable money. Two chapters are now unfolding at once: stablecoins (programmable dollars, 97% of them dollar-denominated) and autonomous payments that execute with no human pressing a button, via protocols like x402. Both lead to the same question — how much transactionality can the system handle, and what does control look like when the one paying may not be a person? The spoiler runs from end to end: almost everything still settles in dollars.\n \n ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eO2Jn0gxT_H9qDuuD0uleszE2n40sbZ-1T2r0zOcj9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMTY4LzE2ODMz/MTU4ODQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}