AEON Partners with Sahara AI to Enable Real-World Payments with $SAHARA

HONG KONG, Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AEON, the next-generation crypto payment framework, is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Sahara AI, the first full-stack, AI-native blockchain platform. Through this collaboration, AEON Pay now supports $SAHARA for online and offline payments, bringing Sahara AI's token from Web3 to real-world usage.

With this integration, users can now pay with $SAHARA through AEON Pay, AEON's Web3 mobile payment solution available on Telegram MiniApp, Bitget Wallet, TokenPocket, KuCoin Pay, and Bybit Pay. Payments with $SAHARA are now supported across over 20 million merchants in Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Nigeria, with expansion plans in Africa and LATAM already underway.

Sahara AI is a decentralized Layer-1 blockchain built to enable open and equitable access to artificial intelligence. It empowers developers, data contributors, and users to build, monetize, and collaborate on AI applications across any chain. Its full-stack infrastructure and AI development platform support AI training, model sharing, and marketplace transactions, all powered by the $SAHARA token.

By teaming up, AEON and Sahara AI are bridging AI and payments, extending the utility of $SAHARA from the AI-native ecosystem into everyday consumer experiences. This partnership turns tokenized participation in AI development into tangible economic value in the real world, strengthening the link between AI innovation and daily commerce. It marks a step forward in AEON's mission to make crypto spending as simple as scanning a QR code, while amplifying Sahara AI's vision of inclusive, cross-chain AI accessibility and economic empowerment.

About Sahara AI
Sahara AI is the first full-stack, AI-native blockchain platform where anyone on any chain can create, contribute to and monetize AI. Our infrastructure is designed to accelerate an AI-driven future that is open, equitable, and accessible to all.

About AEON
AEON is the next-generation crypto payment framework, built for AI to drive intelligent, automated payments across Web3 and simplify how crypto works in real life. With omni-chain support, AEON's AI Payments system allows intelligent agents to manage and automate transactions, payments, subscriptions, and remittances for users.

With offerings like Web3 Mobile Payment that allows users to pay with crypto across 10,000 brands at 20+ million retail merchants in SEA, Africa and Latin America, Online Web3 Payment, Swap Pay, and a growing suite of AI-integrated payment services, AEON aims to create a future of crypto finance that's intelligent, scalable, and borderless, where AI meets real life through seamless, scalable payments for next billion of users.

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