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Coinbase joins tokenized stock race with onchain shares and dividend payments

Coinbase (COIN) said it plans to introduce tokenized stocks backed one-for-one by underlying U.S. equities, joining the growing competition among crypto firms and traditional...

Ripple invests in Flutterwave, bringing RLUSD and XRP Ledger to payments in Africa

Ripple, the blockchain firm closely associated with the XRP Ledger (XRP) network, invested in African payments company Flutterwave as part of its Series E...

Mastercard prepares agentic commerce platform for a future where AI agents make payments

Mastercard (MA) is betting that AI agents will soon become active participants in the economy and wants its payments network to sit at the...

World Series of Poker adds SOL payments for tournament buy-ins

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is bringing cryptocurrency payments to its global tournament circuit by teaming up with the Solana Foundation.The world's largest...

Movement and Zoth Target $1B Stablecoin Payments Corridor With RWA Yield Layer

Movement Network has signed a definitive agreement with Zoth to build a $1 billion cross-border payments corridor and stablecoin yield infrastructure for fintechs, neobanks...

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...