Visa Moves $7 Billion Through Stablecoins and Just Added Five More Blockchains
The payments company that moves $14 trillion a year just quintupled its blockchain settlement infrastructure in one day.
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OKX Built a Payment System Where AIs Pay Each Other Without Humans
The first crypto exchange just built a payment rail where no human needs to approve the invoice, contest the charge, or sign the receipt. OKX launched the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), a system designed to handle full AI-to-AI commercial transactions including quotes, payments, and disputes.
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KAST Hires Ex-SEC Insider as Stablecoin Rules Take Shape
The stablecoin regulatory window is open for exactly as long as it takes Congress to screw it up, and KAST just hired someone who knows which hallways to walk down. KAST hired Stephanie Allen, a former SEC advisor, to lead policy communications as stablecoin legislation moves through Washington.
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Polymarket Hit $25B in One Month as Election Tourists Became Crypto Gamblers
The casino opened, the tourists came for one event, then they stayed and became regulars. Polymarket hit $25.7 billion in March volume, driven by retail traders betting across sports, politics, and crypto, not just tentpole events
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Shinhan Card's 13 Million Customers Get Stablecoin Payments on Solana
A credit card company with 13 million customers just picked the network everyone said was too risky for enterprise. Shinhan Card partnered with Solana Foundation for a proof-of-concept testing stablecoin payments in real-world retail scenarios
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Solana Bets $18M That Stablecoin Infrastructure Beats DeFi Apps
Solana just wrote an $18 million check to the company building the plumbing for institutional stablecoin transactions, and the smartest money in crypto is betting that multisig wallets are the next infrastructure battleground.
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Homebuyers Just Closed $9.4M in Real Estate Using Stablecoins
The stablecoin bridge to homeownership just processed its first nine-figure proof of concept. RealOpen and TRON verified $9.4M in USDT transactions through their "Fast Moves, Fast Payments" campaign, proving crypto can clear real estate deals faster than wire transfers
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Tether Plans $1.4B Bitcoin Empire Through Twenty One Capital Merger
Tether is assembling Bitcoin's version of a financial services supergroup, and the org chart tells you exactly what they're after.
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XRPL Just Turned Boring Bonds Into Crypto's Fastest Growing Asset
The boring bond market just became the fastest-growing use case for crypto rails, and most people still think this space is about JPEGs. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries on XRP Ledger exploded 700-800% to $418 million, with some sources reporting the figure climbing as high as $537 million in recent days
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Meta Pays Creators in Crypto While Banks Still Process Checks
Web2's biggest creator platform just made fiat the slow option. Meta is now paying Instagram and Facebook creators in USDC stablecoin via Solana and Polygon blockchains, starting in Colombia and the Philippines
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MoonPay Acquires Crypto Custodian, Taps Ex-CFTC Chief to Chase Institutions
The crypto on-ramp just became a full-service institutional back office, and a former regulator is running it. MoonPay acquired Sodot, a crypto key management firm, and folded it into a new institutional division bundling key management, custody, execution, and white-label stablecoin issuance.
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GSR's New ETF Picks Between Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana For You
The first actively managed multi-crypto ETF just made choosing between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana someone else's problem. GSR launched the Crypto Core3 ETF on NASDAQ, bundling Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana into one actively rebalanced portfolio
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Galaxy Digital Bets $20M That Credit Markets Still Run on Spreadsheets
The credit market's plumbing is still run on Excel spreadsheets and prayer, and someone just put $20 million on the table to fix it. Galaxy Digital led a $20 million investment in Fence, a startup using blockchain and tokenization to automate back-office workflows in the $6 trillion credit market
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HSBC Stablecoin Cloned by Scammers Before Official Launch
Scammers launched fake HSBC stablecoins before HSBC could launch the real one — welcome to the new frontier of financial identity theft. Hong Kong regulators issued warnings about fraudulent tokens falsely claiming to be HSBC's upcoming stablecoin, which hasn't launched yet
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Airtel's $2B London IPO Signals Wall Street's Bet on Africa's Payment Rails
Africa's mobile money networks are becoming the rails for real-world asset tokenization, and Wall Street is finally pricing that in. Airtel Africa is planning a $1.5-2 billion London IPO for its mobile money unit, one of the largest fintech offerings from the continent
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Canada Bans Crypto ATMs After Fraud Surge Hits Elderly Victims
The machines that were supposed to make crypto accessible just became the poster child for why governments still don't trust it. Canada is moving to ban crypto ATMs nationwide, calling them a "primary method" scammers use to defraud victims and launder money
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Circle mints $500M USDC on Solana in single transaction
Circle just minted half a billion dollars worth of digital cash on Solana in a single batch, and the timing tells you everything about who's winning the stablecoin wars.
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RedStone Unlocks $30B in Tokenized Treasuries Sitting Idle as DeFi Collateral
The tokenized treasury market hit $30 billion, but you still can't use most of it as collateral because DeFi moves in seconds and redemptions take days. RedStone launched a settlement layer designed to bridge the timing gap between instant DeFi liquidations and slow real-world asset redemptions
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SEC Chair Reveals Crypto Rulebook After Years of Enforcement-Only Crackdown
The regulator who spent years torching the industry just told it exactly what he wants to build instead. SEC Chair Paul Atkins outlined crypto regulatory plans at Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas, marking a sharp policy pivot from the enforcement-first Gensler era
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Animoca Bets $5.2M That Tokenized Assets Have a Distribution Problem
Animoca Brands is betting that the hard part of tokenized assets isn't the blockchain infrastructure, it's making anyone care enough to use it. Nuva closed a $5.2 million seed round to build a marketplace connecting tokenized real-world asset issuers directly with yield-seeking users
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