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Movement pivots to stablecoin payments as the layer-2 boom loses momentum

Movement, a project originally designed to link blockchains built using the Move programming language with Ethereum, is pivoting toward cross-border payments, remittances and dollar...

MoneyGram launches stablecoin on Stellar, joining rush toward digital dollar payments

MoneyGram announced Tuesday it had launched its own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin on the Stellar (XLM) blockchain, joining a growing wave of global payments companies...

Argentina Bill Targets Crypto Payments for Online Betting

Argentina’s government is moving to restrict banks, payment firms and crypto providers from serving unauthorized online gambling platforms as part of a broader crackdown...

BIS’ Project Agora finds tokenization could make cross-border payments faster, safer

A major experiment led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that tokenization could help fix some of the biggest pain points in...

Self-Custodial Bitcoin Payments Now Show Verified Merchant Details

Branta, a Bitcoin security company, recently announced integration with Manna Wallet, a self-custodial payments app. Users will now see the logos and...

NEAR Launches Confidential Payments via Intents Protocol

NEAR Protocol has launched confidential payments on its Intents platform, enabling private cross-chain swaps between NEAR and ETH.NEAR Protocol has activated confidential payments on...

South Carolina Governor Signs Bill Protecting Bitcoin Miners and Banning CBDC Payments

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed Senate Bill 163 into law on Tuesday, advancing one of the most crypto-friendly state-level frameworks in the country.The...

Stripe-backed Tempo taps $7.5 billion DeFi lender Morpho to expand beyond payments

The move brings onchain yield and lending to the payments-focused chain in a bid to offer full-stack onchain finance platform to companies building on...

Zoth and Bakkt Forge Strategic Partnership to Scale Compliant Stablecoin Payments Across Emerging Markets

Privacy-first stablecoin neobank Zoth and regulated digital asset infrastructure company Bakkt have officially signed an MOU to establish a strategic partnership framework. The partnership directly...