[Alipay Chairman: Cryptocurrency as a Payment Medium Has Become One of the AI Payment Exploration Paths] According to Caixin, Han Xinyi, CEO of Ant Group and Chairman of Alipay, shared systematic insights on the global exploration paths of AI payment at the China Payment and Clearing Forum. He stated that AI payment has essentially formed four exploration paths: The first category is represented by payment technology and infrastructure platforms like Stripe. The second category is represented by cryptocurrency companies such as Circle and Coinbase. These primarily rely on stablecoins and their wallet systems, using cryptocurrency as a payment medium to directly support automated payment scenarios between machines. The third category is represented by traditional payment networks like the two major card organizations (Visa, Mastercard). The fourth category is AI platform companies such as Google and OpenAI.