Alipay Chairman: Cryptocurrency as a Payment Medium Has Become One of the Exploratory Paths for AI Payments

TechFlow reports that on August 31, according to Caixin, Han Xinyi, Chief Executive Officer of Ant Group and Chairman of Alipay, outlined systematic perspectives on the global exploratory pathways for AI payments at the China Payment and Clearing Forum. He stated that AI payments have basically formed four exploratory paths:

The first category consists of payment technology and infrastructure platforms, represented by Stripe. The second category is represented by cryptocurrency companies such as Circle and Coinbase, which primarily rely on stablecoins and their wallet systems, using cryptocurrencies as a payment medium to directly support automated payment scenarios between machines. The third category includes traditional payment networks, represented by the two major card organizations (Visa, Mastercard). The fourth category comprises AI platform enterprises such as Google and OpenAI.