NEW YORK: #AI--XDC Tech, the US based institutional arm of XDC Network, announced a critical integration with Bridge, the leading stablecoin infrastructure platform and a Stripe company. The integration gives developers building on XDC direct access to Bridge's tools for converting between cash and stablecoins, known as on- and off-ramps, along with virtual accounts and multi-currency custody, without requiring developers to build that compliance layer themselves.

The core use case is payments. Businesses can accept dollars, euros and other fiat currencies through Bridge's virtual accounts and settle in stablecoins on XDC in near real time, cutting out correspondent banks and multi-day clearing. This already works in trade finance and tokenized assets, where invoices and investor payouts settle in stablecoins such as USDC instead of wire transfers.

Bridge holds licenses across the U.S., EU and Latin America, putting XDC's network inside a regulated payment system at a time when banks remain selective about which blockchains they build on. It's also the same infrastructure XDC is now extending toward a very different kind of customer: AI agents that pay on their own.

The Bridge partnership marks a step toward XDC becoming the settlement layer for a future where AI agents pay other agents, businesses and people directly, without a human approving each transaction. The problem it solves is speed: an agent making thousands of decisions in a second can't wait days for a wire to clear. XDC's network comes with a two-second transaction finality, with fees under a hundredth of a cent. Bridge's licenses give agents access to fiat rails immediately, without XDC building out banking relationships country by country, cutting years off getting an agentic product to market. Bridge's virtual accounts go further, giving a single AI agent its own IBAN or ACH-style account tied to stablecoin settlement on XDC, letting it take in fiat, hold stablecoins, and pay out under one identity.

Multi-currency custody lets the same agent hold and move between dollars, euros and stablecoins, and XDC's alignment with ISO 20022 messaging lets those payments speak the same language as SWIFT, SEPA and FedNow. Compliance travels with all of it. Bridge's KYC, KYB and sanctions checks apply to every application built on the integration, which XDC says separates agentic payment networks that scale from ones that run into regulatory trouble.

"Every layer of finance is being rebuilt for a world where software, not just people, initiates the payment. This partnership gives our ecosystem stablecoin infrastructure that already meets that bar. It is one part of a broader build we are not ready to detail yet, aimed squarely at the agentic economy," says Atul Khekade, Co-Founder, XDC Network.

"The networks that end up mattering most for stablecoin settlement will be the ones built for speed and finality from day one. XDC's infrastructure is exactly the kind of foundation this space needs as stablecoin volumes keep climbing," says Mai Leduc Blount, Head of Product at Bridge.

XDC settles more than 2,000 transactions per second at fees under a hundredth of a cent, with transactions finalized in two seconds, according to the company. The integration will be live for developers and companies building on XDC, with documentation and sandbox access available through the XDC Developer Portal at xdc.tech and through Bridge at bridge.xyz.

Fonte: Business Wire