Alipay Chairman: Cryptocurrency as a Payment Medium Becomes One of AI Payment Exploration Paths

On August 31, according to Caixin, Ant Group CEO and Alipay Chairman Han Xinyi elaborated on global exploration paths for AI payments at the China Payment and Clearing Forum, stating that AI payments have essentially formed four exploration paths: The first is payment technology and infrastructure platforms represented by Stripe. The second is represented by cryptocurrency companies such as Circle and Coinbase. They primarily rely on stablecoins and their wallet systems, using cryptocurrency as a payment medium to directly support automated payment scenarios between machines. The third is traditional payment networks represented by the two major card organizations (Visa, Mastercard). The fourth is AI platform companies such as Google and OpenAI.