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Market chatter linking XRP to FedNow through Volante is not supported by the vendor's own materials, a separation that has historically moved XRP on any U.S. payments narrative.
Three months after a $51M raise, the LA-based stablecoin neobank lands unicorn status with SBI's Ripple, Circle and Morpho ties opening payment rails across Japan, Asia and emerging markets.
Circle's upside case extends beyond reserve revenue, with payments infrastructure and Arc giving it a path into a broader stablecoin-based financial system.
Moving beyond a single network identity gives Base a broader adoption case, while launches by Robinhood and Stripe validate the wider strategy.
A stronger company-wide outlook contrasts with weaker Bitcoin monetization on Cash App, making the fee changes central to Block's earnings outlook.
The Singapore payments firm says customer funds are safe even as the onchain investigator tracking the bleed reports the figure has climbed $2.5M in days, with incoming deposits still being drained…
The third major US card network on board lifts MoonPay's addressable US card base by tens of millions, but the real test is whether legacy-network rails can sustain crypto purchase volume at scale.
The raise lands at unicorn status for a startup positioning itself as the cross-rail bridge between stablecoins and traditional payment networks like Swift, ACH and SEPA.
The wallet provider is shrinking roughly a quarter of its headcount to fund a build-out of stablecoin payment rails, a bet that the next growth lane for self-custody wallets is merchant and…
The layoff is large but the strategic read is bigger: a publicly listed crypto wallet is rewriting itself as a full-stack payments company on the back of Monavate and Baanx.
The Tokyo-listed Amazon Japan logistics partner plans to settle fees and wages in regulated JPYC, marking Japan's first large-scale corporate stablecoin rollout in day-to-day operations.
Japan's logistics sector has been bleeding drivers for years, and stablecoin-settled contracts cut the multi-week wait that pushed contractors toward other industries.
Japan's first large-scale corporate JPYC rollout signals the yen stablecoin is crossing from crypto trading into mainstream B2B settlement, with ¥1B invested by the issuer's new partner.
The shift favors a super-app model, but regulated infrastructure, recovery protections and bank-issued money keep banks embedded behind the wallet.
Federal legitimacy is accelerating enterprise adoption and incumbent investment, but unfinished rules still leave operators facing costly integration reviews.
The dollar number is absent, but the reach is the point: Visa is wrapping stablecoin minting, custody and movement into one enterprise rail sitting on top of the world's largest card network.
The pivot from base-layer infrastructure to payments is a survival move, not a growth one. Polygon is trading developer mindshare for a narrower bet on stablecoin rails.
Card rails keep the macro layer, stablecoins take the micro tier, and Visa expects hybrid agentic flows rather than a winner-take-all shift on either rail.
Exchange head Shunyet Jan wants Binance measured against payment giants, not rival CEX books, and argues stablecoin volumes still have a runway as banks move in on settlement rails.
Twelve providers per euro-area national central bank is the largest live test of retail CBDC settlement to date, and it lands as the ECB pushes to finalise the digital euro rulebook by mid-2026.
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