New Visa Direct pilot lets businesses send dollar-backed stablecoins like USDC to users’ digital wallets for near-instant access to earnings.
Visa now supports direct stablecoin payouts, starting with Circle’s USDC, through a new pilot designed for creators and gig workers.
Ripple’s newest funding round landed with unusual force for a company long defined by court battles and contested narratives. On Nov. 5, the firm announced a $500 million strategic investment at a $40 billion valuation, backed by funds associated with Citadel Securities, Fortress Investment Group, and Brevan Howard. These are traditional financial institutions that rarely […]
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Steak n Shake just made fast-food and Bitcoin history. On white paper day, the 91-year-old American fast-food chain announced the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR), staking its claim (excuse the pun) as the first major U.S. restaurant chain to funnel all BTC payments straight into a corporate Bitcoin treasury. How Steak n Shake […]
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The Bitcoin Lightning Network was once the crown jewel of Bitcoin’s scaling story, a living map of open channels and growing liquidity that reflected adoption in real-time. However, as the network matures, the picture has blurred. Behind the steady decline in public Bitcoin Lightning capacity lies a quiet transformation: exchanges, wallets, and merchants are routing […]
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Visa CEO Ryan McInerney recently confirmed the payments giant is adding support for four stablecoins across four blockchains.
Western Union’s new Solana-based stablecoin and crypto cash-out network mark a smart step into blockchain-enabled remittances, the report said.
The U.S. dollar-pegged token is expected to become available in the first half of 2026.
The bank is working with Coinbase to streamline digital asset payments for institutional clients.
Stablecoins were used to move roughly $46 trillion over the past 12 months, according to new a16z crypto report. Beyond that, over $80 trillion has been processed in crypto trading volume across the same time period. Framed against payment “flows,” the stablecoin tally places on-chain dollars within low single-digit share of global settlement, and it […]
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Moon Inc. (HKEX: 1723), formerly HK Asia Holdings Limited, has raised about US$8.8 million through new shares and convertible notes and will roll out a Bitcoin prepaid card across Asia, positioning a Hong Kong–listed issuer on retail cash rails. The company secured roughly HK$65.5 million via a private placement, combining the allotment of new shares […]
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Federal Reserve Governor Waller says the central bank plan is entering a new era and says crypto will "no longer be on the fringes."
Elon Musk recently revived the “51 % renewables” benchmark, stating that the energy backing Bitcoin “can’t be faked.” The reference is to his earlier promise that Tesla would resume accepting Bitcoin payments once at least half of mining energy came from clean or low-carbon sources. However, now that the latest data suggests the network may […]
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With rising liquidity, regulatory clarity and institutional use, stablecoins are moving beyond crypto trading to challenge traditional payment networks, DWS said.
The growth of the stablecoin sector as been one of the standout trends in the digital asset industry over the last year.
The company says it has grown revenue 23-fold since 2024 and now supports stablecoin-powered payments in over 170 countries.
Lava has also launched a new dollar yield product, currently offering up to 7.5% APY on loans backed solely by bitcoin collateral.
Ripple's Chief Technology Officer, David Schwartz, announced his departure after more than a decade at the technology company.
Swiss liquidity provider Arf, powered by Huma Finance's PayFi network, aims to make cross-border stablecoin settlements faster and more capital-efficient.
Visa launched a pilot to test stablecoins for cross-border payments, providing businesses a new way to transfer money abroad more quickly.
US Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller used the Sibos 2025 stage to highlight the Fed’s growing interest in new technologies shaping the financial system. He disclosed that the central bank is conducting hands-on research into tokenization, smart contracts, and artificial intelligence in the payments sector. According to Waller, this work is designed to understand how […]
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The Hong Kong company is scaling stablecoin-powered cards, wallets and payout services with backing from Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy and Vertex.
Funding round backed by Bank of America, Citi, WisdomTree and others highlights institutional push into tokenized finance.
The tech giant expands its open-source AI protocol into financial transactions, partnering with Coinbase, the Ethereum Foundation to integrate stablecoin rails.
The proof of concept, run under the Swiss Bankers Association, saw UBS, PostFinance, and Sygnum Bank carry out transactions using deposit tokens.
MoonPay said that the deal supports its goal of building an international crypto payments network under a unified regulatory framework.
The firm said users in the U.S. will soon be able to send bitcoin, ether and its own PYUSD stablecoin directly across accounts as part of the company's crypto payment push.
Coinbase has launched x402 Bazaar for AI agent-powered x402 micropayments. The catalog exposes a machine-readable index of services that accept pay-per-request USDC payments and is positioned as a discovery layer for agents and developers integrating the x402 protocol. Coinbase says Bazaar is in early development, and today, it indexes endpoints that settle through its hosted […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.