Visa And Mesh Want Crypto Wallet Balances To Work At 175 Million Merchants
TL;DR: Mesh and Visa have announced a partnership intended to let consumers spend cryptocurrency and stablecoins from participatin...
Mastercard Introduces Fraud Screening Before Stablecoin Payments Go On-Chain
TL;DR: Mastercard has launched Stablecoin Security, a risk-scoring tool designed to help financial institutions examine payments b...
German Savings Banks Begin Crypto Trading Rollout Inside Sparkassen App
Germany’s Sparkassen savings-bank group is beginning a phased cryptocurrency-trading rollout inside its existing banking app, taki...
Stablecoin Payments Reach $482 Billion As Token Supply Barely Grows
A new payments dataset offers a useful correction to the idea that stablecoin growth must be measured by how many tokens are in ci...
JPMorgan Takes JPM Coin To Ethereum As Banks Test Public-Chain Settlement
JPMorgan is taking its bank-issued deposit token onto public Ethereum, an expansion that puts an established Wall Street payments...
Tokenized Stocks Reach $262 Million In DeFi, But The Growth Is Not All On Base
TL;DR: Stock-linked tokens deployed in DeFi reached an estimated $262.4 million across blockchains at the end of September, up nea...
Fidelity Sees A Stronger Solana Network, With Concentration Risks Still In View
TL;DR: Fidelity’s technology research team says Solana has operated for more than two years without a major mainnet outage, while...
Aave’s Native Bitcoin Plan Moves Forward, But Governance Has Questions
TL;DR: Babylon Labs has advanced a proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 without requiring wrapped BTC or a centr...
Robinhood Chain Now Accounts For More Than Half Of Uniswap Revenue
TL;DR: Uniswap generated approximately $14.81 million in protocol revenue during September, with Robinhood Chain contributing abou...
Ethereum ETFs Lose $320 Million In A Week As Bitcoin Outflows Slow
TL;DR: US spot Ethereum ETFs lost $320.1 million in the week ending October 16, more than the $228.4 million withdrawn from Bitcoi...