Ethena Brings Dollar Assets to Sui With suiUSDe and USDi Launch
TLDR: Ethena Labs will launch suiUSDe and USDi on Sui Network in Q4, offering native digital dollars to power DeFi and payments. s...
OKX SG Brings Stablecoin Payments to Grab With StraitsX Settlement Rails
TLDR: OKX SG, Grab, and StraitsX launch Singapore’s first stablecoin scan-to-pay service for USDT and USDC payments. Merchants rec...
Quant Snaps Up Role in UK’s Tokenised Sterling Project, Banks Back Move
TLDR: Quant will provide programmable money infrastructure for live tokenised sterling deposit transactions until mid-2026. The pr...
India Cracks Down on ‘Alarming’ Digital Payments Fraud With Strict New Rules
RBI has released directions setting dynamic authentication across India for digital transactions and payments by April 2026, align...
NET Dollar Hits the Internet: Cloudflare Enables Instant AI Crypto Transactions
TLDR: Cloudflare introduces NET Dollar, a USD-backed stablecoin for instant global AI payments. NET Dollar allows autonomous AI ag...
Circle and Fireblocks Team Up to Push Stablecoin Adoption for Banks
TLDR: Circle and Fireblocks announced a strategic partnership to accelerate USDC adoption across financial institutions worldwide....
Fintech Firm Klarna raises $1.37B in US IPO, Sets Stage for Market Debut
The “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) lender Klarna reported that it sold 34.3 million shares at $40 each during its US IPO debut.The p...
Mastercard Draws the Line on Crypto but Keeps Stablecoins in Play
TLDR: Mastercard sees crypto as a payment tool but not a revolution, says Christian Rau in a recent interview. The company uses cr...
Fed Governor Waller Tells Crypto Investors: DeFi Is Just Payments Tech, Not a Th...
TLDR: Fed Governor Waller told the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium that DeFi is only a new way to process payments safely. Stablecoin...