Hassan Maishera
AEON, the foundational payment and settlement layer built for the new AI economy, announced earlier this week that it had partnered with Dash to support its native token, $DASH, across AEON’s global payment network.
AEON Partnership Expands Dash’s Real-World Usability
The partnership expands Dash’s real-world usability while positioning $DASH as a practical medium of exchange for both everyday commerce and emerging AI payment scenarios.
Thanks to this integration, users can now pay with $DASH for both online and offline purchases using AEON Pay, AEON’s Web3 mobile payment solution.
The $DASH token can be used seamlessly at real-world checkout points. The partnership already enables access to more than 50 million offline merchants across Southeast Asia, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, Georgia, and Peru, with further expansion planned across emerging markets in Africa and Latin America.
AEON added that its AEON Pay is available via the AEON Pay Telegram Mini App and through integrations with major wallets and platforms, including Bitget Wallet, Binance Wallet, OKX Wallet, Solana Pay, TokenPocket, KuCoin Pay, and Bybit.
The app allows users to scan QR codes at participating merchants and complete transactions with crypto, while merchants receive local fiat settlement.
AEON will enable the $DASH token to operate as a digital cash for users, while allowing it to be used o as a settlement asset for AI agents and automated systems. This is [possible thanks to AEON’s support of emerging AI payment standards such as x402 and ERC-8004
AEON is currently one of the largest crypto payment settlement networks, utilizing QR codes and bank transfers, having onboarded over 50 million merchants and served more than 1.74 million users.
Dash is a cryptocurrency focused on being the best digital cash in the world: instant, affordable, secure, and confidential payments, as well as usability features including usernames, contact lists, encrypted metadata, and more.
Meanwhile, AEON is the foundational payment and settlement layer built for the new AI economy. By pioneering support for emerging AI payment standards like x402 and ERC-8004, AEON is actively reshaping the internet’s production relations. Its AI payment and Web3 Mobile Payment solutions, AEON Pay, have processed 994k transactions with $29M+ in volume across 50M real-world merchants in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
