Shinhan Financial is teaming up with Visa to explore stablecoin payments and settlement in South Korea, signaling that digital money is moving from crypto buzzword to real financial plumbing. The catch: the biggest battle now is regulation, with banks fighting to keep a firm grip on who gets to issue and control won-backed stablecoins.
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Visa has joined Singapore’s BLOOM initiative and tapped Nium for a pilot testing seven-day settlement with regulated dollar- and euro-backed stablecoins. It’s a practical bet on faster, compliance-ready cross-border payments — but still just a pilot, not a done deal.
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X Money is rolling out US payments for Premium users with up to 6% yields, instant transfers, and FDIC-backed deposit features — but despite years of crypto hype, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and stablecoins are nowhere in the launch.
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Visa has launched its Stablecoin Platform, with Open USD as the first beta-supported token, signaling a push to make stablecoins usable for institutional treasury, settlement, and liquidity workflows. The rollout is limited, but the move could sharpen competition in the payments rails race.
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Stablecoin Cards Push Crypto Payments Near $8 Billion Crypto card payments are no longer a novelty. Cumulative volume has climbed to $7.8 billion, and monthly activity is up 230% year over year, a sign that stablecoins are turning crypto into something people actually spend instead of just trade. $7.8 billion in cumulative crypto card payments […]
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Fold Holdings has started rolling out its Bitcoin Credit Card to selected users on its waitlist, pushing a familiar payments product into bitcoin territory with a simple pitch: spend as usual, earn BTC instead of bland airline points or store-credit nonsense. 1.5% back in bitcoin on purchases Up to 4% back through partner offers and […]
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Visa is testing stablecoin spending through a new on-chain banking pilot with WeFi, a move that pushes crypto further into everyday payments instead of leaving it trapped in back-end settlement plumbing. Visa and WeFi are piloting stablecoin spending through card rails Self-custody meets Visa acceptance in Europe, Asia, and Latin America Visa’s stablecoin settlement now […]
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Visa is expanding stablecoin settlement across nine blockchains as annualized volume reaches roughly $7 billion, a clear sign that crypto payment rails are moving from sandbox experiments to real-world infrastructure. Nine-chain support: Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Stellar, Base, Polygon (POL), Arc, Canton, and Tempo Fast growth: Annualized stablecoin settlement volume is around $7 billion, up roughly […]
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Stablecoins are looking less like a trading sidecar and more like actual financial infrastructure. Monthly crypto card payments have climbed to roughly $600 million, while onchain credit has hit $5.58 billion, a sign that stablecoins are being used for spending and borrowing instead of just sitting around as idle ammo for the next market meltdown. […]
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Visa has pushed stablecoin settlement deeper into real payment infrastructure, adding five more blockchains and lifting its annualized run rate to $7 billion. Five new chains: Polygon, Base, Arc, Canton, and Tempo Nine networks total: Visa’s stablecoin settlement program keeps broadening $7 billion run rate: Annualized stablecoin settlement volume is up more than 50% in […]
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