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Verona, Formerly XION, Launches verUSD Stablecoin for AI Agent Payments With $100M in Commitments

  • —More than $100 million in commitments, including over $60 million in contracted payment volume
  • —verUSD launches on seven chains: Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, Arbitrum, Celo and Solana
  • —Issued through Brale, a FinCEN-registered MSB, with 1:1 dollar reserves at US institutions
  • —Verona claims 70 million verified interactions across 5 million users
Why it matters: The stablecoin market tops $300 billion, making Verona's $100 million roughly 0.03% of it, and the AI-agent niche already has XO Cash and MainUSD.
Source: BlockchainReporter