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Square Auto-Enables Bitcoin Payments for U.S. Sellers

Square has started auto-enabling Bitcoin payments for eligible U.S. sellers. The bigger story is not the feature itself, but how Block is removing merchant friction to test Bitcoin at checkout scale.

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Crypto Newswire7 min read

Square Auto-Enables Bitcoin Payments for U.S. Sellers

Square has started auto-enabling Bitcoin payments for eligible U.S. sellers. The bigger story is not the feature itself, but how Block is removing merchant friction to test Bitcoin at checkout scale.

Cryptic Daily Desk

Mar 31, 2026

Dark technical illustration of an AI agent using Lightning-based L402 payment authorization to access paid APIs, with a 402 challenge, payment receipt flow, and parallel machine-payment standards shown as separate lanes.

Web3 Builder7 min read

Lightning Labs Agent Toolkit: L402 for Autonomous APIs

Lightning Labs’ agent toolkit turns L402 into deployable agent infrastructure, but the wider 402-payments market is still splitting across incompatible stacks.

Marcus Bishop

Mar 28, 2026

Dark technical illustration of Core Lightning splicing RPCs, showing splicein, spliceout, and cross-splice operations moving liquidity between Lightning channels through an automated node dashboard.

Web3 Builder7 min read

Core Lightning v26.04rc1 Splicing RPCs Move to Center

Core Lightning v26.04rc1 turns splicing into a callable RPC layer, giving service nodes cleaner liquidity automation while leaving RC-stage caveats in place.

Zashleen Singh

Mar 28, 2026