Most organizations have a blockchain blind spot. And it’s in the word itself. For years, “blockchain,” and “crypto,” have been treated as a singular proposition. Companies were assumed to be either “in” or “out,” believers or skeptics. That binary framing was convenient during the early...
Two words typically define and rule the enterprise treasury management space: discipline and predictability. Cash flows are forecasted, liabilities are denominated in stable currencies, and transparency is something produced quarterly, often through intermediaries. But what about for the treasury teams and finance functions of cryptocurrency-native...
Agentic commerce company Rezolve Ai has launched a service called “Revenue Pools” for its enterprise customers. The new offering, from the company’s SQD Network subsidiary, is designed to bolster rising demand from large enterprise and institutional customers, Rezolve said in a Monday (Dec. 29) news release. “SQD provides high-performance...
If stablecoins finally had their moment during 2025, it wasn’t the moment most crypto evangelists imagined. There were no consumer splash campaigns that took off, no breathless promises of “banking the unbanked,” and no viral apps that suddenly made digital dollars part of everyday life....
Coinbase launched a program that helps businesses create their own stablecoins, and, in a separate project, will help Klarna implement stablecoin funding. The company’s new Coinbase Custom Stablecoins service allows businesses to create custom stablecoins backed by flexible collateral, including USDC and other U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins, custodied...
Mastercard, BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are all players in a new blockchain adoption promotion effort. That’s according to a Thursday (Dec. 18) announcement from ADI Foundation, an Abu Dhabi-based non-profit founded with the goal of “empowering governments and institutions in emerging markets” via blockchain infrastructure. In the case of BlackRock, the...
Watch more: Need to Know: Citi Services’ Biswarup Chatterjee Blockchain was created to challenge the assumptions embedded in decades-old financial infrastructure. “The technology itself is sound,” Biswarup Chatterjee, global head of partnerships and innovation, Citi Services at Citi, told PYMNTS. “It has operational scale to...
There’s a growing divide at the center of the digital asset universe, and it’s one that breaks cleanly over the sector’s fundamental technology: Distributed ledgers, or blockchains. Public blockchains remain the center of gravity for crypto innovation. These networks, like Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, the Ripple...
Bitcoin is on pace for the fourth annual loss in the largest cryptocurrency’s history. As Bloomberg News noted in a report on the downturn Wednesday (Dec. 17), this is the first yearly decline that is not accompanied by an industry meltdown or high-profile scandal. This...