Crypto.com Gets UAE’s First Central Bank Nod to Power Crypto Payments for Govern...
TLDR: Crypto.com’s UAE unit receives first-ever Central Bank approval for a Stored Value Facilities license. The approval allows r...
Mastercard Enters $2.5B Bidding War With Coinbase for UK Stablecoin Firm BVNK
TLDR: Coinbase and Mastercard are competing to buy BVNK in a deal valued between $1.5B and $2.5B. BVNK’s valuation has tripled in...
Binance Mastercard Goes Live in Brazil With Access to Spend BTC, ETH, and More
TLDR: Binance launches Mastercard-powered crypto card in Brazil, allowing instant spending at millions of merchants worldwide. Sup...
Visa Direct Puts Stablecoins to Work in Global Payment Pilot
TLDR: Visa Direct has introduced a pilot using stablecoin prefunding to streamline global payments and reduce capital lockups. Bus...
Sui and t’order Power Next-Gen KRW Stablecoin Payments
TLDR: Sui partners with t’order to bring stablecoin payments to 300,000 POS devices across Korea’s retail network. The partnership...
Nine European Banks to Launch MiCA Euro Stablecoin: Here’s the Timeline
TLDR: Nine top European banks form a consortium to issue a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin in 2026. The consortium will seek a Dutc...
Crossmint secures Circle funding to scale USDC adoption worldwide
TLDR: Circle Ventures invested in Crossmint to push USDC adoption across chains and bring stablecoin payments to global users. Cro...
Cloudflare and Coinbase Launch x402 Foundation for Machine-to-Machine Web Paymen...
Cloudflare and Coinbase launched the x402 Foundation to establish a universal standard for AI-driven payments that converts the HT...
Stable Wins PayPal Backing as PYUSD Goes Live on Stablechain
TLDR: PayPal Ventures invests in Stable, bringing PYUSD to Stablechain for faster, cheaper global transactions. Stablechain suppor...
Why Brazil’s Nubank Wants Stablecoins on Credit Cards and What It Means for Cryp...
TLDR: Nubank will test credit card payments with dollar-pegged stablecoins, linking crypto directly to banking services. Campos Ne...