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FurlPay Wallet Names Are Live: Claim the Handle Your AI Agents Will Pay With
Reserve yourname.furlpay.com — one human-readable identity for you and every agent you run. Here is why payment handles suddenly matter in 2026, how the x402 standard turned HTTP into a payment rail, exactly how reservation and consent work under the hood, and the security decisions behind binding a name to an account.
August 10, 2026 · 12 min read
FurlPay on Your Wrist: Introducing the Wear OS App
Your portfolio, live market charts, one-tap Buy and Sell, card controls, USDC receive codes, flight booking and a voice assistant — on a watch. Here is a detailed walkthrough of every screen in the FurlPay Wear OS companion, how it stays secure without your phone, and why it is open source.
July 18, 2026 · 10 min read
The Stablecoin Rail Question: UPI vs Solana vs Polygon — and Where Furlpay Settles
Every serious payments platform now has to pick a settlement layer. We compared UPI, Solana and Polygon on the metrics that actually matter for moving a stablecoin dollar across borders — cost, finality, liquidity and AI-agent readiness. The honest answer is not one rail, it is stablecoins on the right rail for each job.
July 7, 2026 · 11 min read
The Tokenized Economy Still Needs a Cash Register: Stablecoins as the RWA Settlement Layer
Roughly $27B of real-world assets are now on-chain and BlackRock's BUIDL alone passed $2.5B. But a tokenized Treasury or hotel share is only half a market — it still needs a payment rail. Here is where stablecoin settlement fits, and where Furlpay honestly does and does not play.
July 7, 2026 · 7 min read
The 2026 Card Fee Changes Hotels Should Watch — and the USDC Alternative
April 2026 brought a wave of card network fee changes — new Mastercard transaction fees, Visa's Level 2 sunset, and revised hotel interchange. Here is what actually changed, honestly, and how USDC at 0.5% compares.
July 6, 2026 · 6 min read
Crypto Payments for Hotels: The Complete 2026 Guide
International guests, high room rates, and card FX fees make hotels a natural fit for stablecoin payments. Palazzo Versace and Emirates already accept crypto. Here is how any hotel can, at 0.5% and zero chargebacks.
July 6, 2026 · 8 min read
USDC on Arbitrum: The Complete Guide for Businesses (2026)
USDC on Arbitrum One settles in about a second for a fraction of a cent of gas — the combination that makes 0.5% payment pricing viable. Here is how it works, why it matters, and how to accept it.
July 6, 2026 · 7 min read
How Do Crypto Payments Work? A Plain-English Guide for Businesses
No jargon: what actually happens when a customer pays a business in USDC, how settlement differs from cards, what a wallet and gas are, and why on-chain payments are final. A practical primer for merchants.
July 6, 2026 · 8 min read
Crypto vs Card Fees: The Real Math on Every $100,000 in Sales
Credit cards take 2.9%-3.5% of every sale. USDC on Arbitrum takes 0.5%. On $100,000 in volume that is roughly a $3,000 difference. Here is the honest, line-by-line math — including the costs each side hides.
July 6, 2026 · 7 min read
Why We Built Furlpay Around Stablecoin Payments, AI Agents and Arbitrum
Merchant payment fees run 1.5-3.5% on card rails. Stablecoin payments on Arbitrum cost a fraction of that — and the industry's biggest players are moving the same direction. Here is the thesis behind Furlpay, what we have built so far, and where we fit in the payments landscape.
July 5, 2026 · 8 min read
FurlPay for OpenBB: Giving the Open-Source Terminal an Execution Layer
OpenBB gives 50,000+ analysts and AI agents world-class financial data — but it can't move a dollar. Our new open-source plugin adds the missing half: screen an asset in OpenBB, then trade it, DCA into it, or settle agentic API revenue, all in stablecoins.
July 4, 2026 · 6 min read
Announcing Furlpay Connect: B2B Stablecoin Settlement
A single-integration gateway that slashes merchant settlement fees to a flat 0.5% and deposits local currency straight into your bank account.
July 1, 2026 · 4 min read
Agentic Commerce: Securing Autonomous AI Payments with x402
Furlpay now supports the x402 Machine Payments Protocol, letting users delegate spend-limited sub-wallets to autonomous AI agents.
June 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Why Furlpay Integrates Wise for Mid-Market FX Rates
Most 'free' international transfers hide fees inside the exchange rate. Furlpay uses Wise's real mid-market rate with every fee shown upfront.
June 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Fractional US Stock Investing on Web3 Rails: The Alpaca SDK
Buy $1 of AAPL, TSLA or SPY straight from your Web3 dashboard. Fractional US equities via the Alpaca Brokerage-as-a-Service API.
June 5, 2026 · 4 min read