MoonPay Launches PayBox, Bringing Payments to ChatGPT and Claude
MoonPay has introduced PayBox, a payment vault that enables AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude to securely initiate payments from natural language prompts. The platform is designed to bridge conversational AI with financial transactions, allowing users to authorize purchases without leaving their AI workflow. As AI agents become increasingly capable of handling everyday tasks, secure payment infrastructure is emerging as a critical piece of the ecosystem. PayBox positions MoonPay at the forefront of this trend by combining digital asset expertise with AI-native commerce. The launch also reflects growing industry momentum toward autonomous AI agents capable of managing financial activities on behalf of users. It marks another significant step in the convergence of artificial intelligence and modern payment infrastructure.
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Stablecoins and Macroeconomic Stability
Libra died in regulatory review. Six years later, PayPal, Tether, and now the GENIUS Act have quietly built the exact thing regulators killed in 2019. A new IMF working paper asks the question nobody in the industry wants to hear: does that make the system more stable, or less?
Their answer is less, and the mechanism is worth understanding.
The authors build a DSGE model where households split activity between a normal fiat economy and a “virtual economy” running entirely on stablecoins, traded anonymously in bilateral matches. Stablecoins sit outside the Fed’s interest rate toolkit. As more activity shifts there, the Fed’s grip on the broader economy weakens. That’s currency competition, modeled formally instead of asserted.
Their fix mirrors bank regulation. Treat the stablecoin-to-reserve backing ratio the way you’d treat a bank’s liquidity coverage ratio, and in their simulations it acts as a real shock absorber, dampening the volatility that stablecoin adoption introduces.
Here’s the part that matters for how you read the headline finding: the destabilizing effect is calibrated to a world where stablecoins are ~18% of GDP, a 10-15 year forward scenario. Run the same model at today’s actual penetration, roughly 2%, and the effect nearly disappears. The authors show this themselves in their sensitivity analysis. It just isn’t the part getting cited.
The real takeaway is “build the backing-ratio regulation now, while stablecoins are still small, because the model says it stops mattering exponentially less the longer you wait.”
That’s the actual argument for GENIUS Act and HKMA-style frameworks. Not because stablecoins are a risk today. Because scale is coming, and the plumbing needs to exist before it does.
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