Alipay Chairman Han Xinyi said cryptocurrency has emerged as one of the main global exploration paths for AI payments. Speaking at the China Payment and Clearing Forum, the Ant Group CEO said crypto companies including Circle and Coinbase are using stablecoins and wallet systems as the payment medium to support automated machine-to-machine payment scenarios. Han said AI payments have now broadly developed along four paths: payment technology and infrastructure platforms represented by Stripe, cryptocurrency companies, traditional payment networks represented by Visa and Mastercard, and AI platform companies such as Google and OpenAI.