Visa Stablecoin Treasury Engine Pushes Settlement Deeper Into Institutional Finance Visa has launched a stablecoin treasury engine for financial institutions, marking another step in the shift from crypto payment experiments to real institutional settlement infrastructure. The service is designed to let financial institutions settle merchant network balances using stablecoins such as USDC and EURC. That…
Sui has launched gas-free stablecoin transfers, a move that goes directly at one of the most annoying pieces of crypto payments: needing the network’s native token just to move dollars. For experienced crypto users, gas is normal. For everyone else, it is friction. A user may have USDC or another stablecoin in a wallet, but…
TL;DR Elon Musk promoted X Money with fiat payment features including Visa integration and peer-to-peer transfers. Dogecoin and other crypto assets were not included in the initial operational scope described in the promo. The distinction matters because DOGE traders have long speculated about eventual X payments integration. Introducing X Money with Visa card integration and…
Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce TL;DR Alchemy-backed AgentCard is positioning itself as a virtual card and identity layer for AI agents. The product gives agents a way to make online purchases while users set limits and monitor spending. The launch connects crypto-style programmable payments with more familiar card-network rails. The bigger…
Facebook paid its creators nearly $3 billion in 2025 — a 35% jump from the year before. Now some of those Meta creators will get paid in crypto. Related Reading Meta: A Second Try At Digital Payments Meta has begun rolling out USDC stablecoin payouts to select creators in the Philippines and Colombia, marking the…
Amidst the ever-evolving crypto world, it's easy to get swept up in the fad. Yet some projects just keep on performing year in, year out. One such cryptocurrency is Litecoin. Often referred to as Bitcoin’s more agile, faster relative, Litecoin has stood the test of time. Litecoin: Why It Still Matters in 2025 With affordable…
Sid Gandhi is the founder and CEO at Polybase Labs, building Payy - to bring fast, free, private payments to the world. Why you should listen Consider that 15 years into the blockchain era – we still don’t have a simple private solution for fast, private, global payments. Using zero-knowledge cryptography, Payy aims to solve…
Ripple’s latest Q3 2020 report shows the firm made On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) sales of $81 million this quarter. By contrast, the previous quarter had ODL sales of $33 million. In addition, the Average Daily Volume (ADV) also showed a marked increase. This quarter’s ADV is up 106% to $404 million dollars, leading to a total…
The Japanese government has started developing a crypto payments platform similar to SWIFT according to reports. The effort has come as part of a wider spread initiative to combat money laundering. SWIFT Not So Swift According to Reuters, citing ‘a person familiar with the plan’, the international network for crypto currency payments will rival SWIFT…
