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Meta has begun offering stablecoin payouts to a limited group of creators. The feature is now available to creators in Colombia and the Philippines, according to a post in the tech giant’s Business Help Center. “Meta now offers USDC stablecoin payouts via supported crypto wallets on the Solana...
Explore more conversations like this From the Block. Nathan McCauley said something on the latest episode of “From the Block” that should have stopped the conversation cold. It almost did. “There was one crypto bank, there are now nine, and what I want is 4,000,”...
With fraud on the rise, the Canadian government is proposing a ban on crypto ATMs. That’s according to the country’s Spring Economic Update for 2026, which was released Tuesday (April 28) and covers, among other things, efforts to combat financial crime. This includes a ban on crypto ATMs,...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Stablecore’s Alex Treece For all the momentum behind digital assets, the banking industry’s biggest hurdle isn’t conceptual. It’s operational. The tools to support cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and tokenized deposits already exist, but what’s missing is the connective infrastructure that allows...
The winners in crypto payments may not be the most innovative, but the least disruptive. “You don’t want to be there waiting for 20 seconds just for the payment conversion to go through,” Jess Houlgrave, CEO of WalletConnect, told PYMNTS. While for years the promise...
The digital assets market may be about to stabilize, Fidelity Digital Assets said in a report published Monday (April 27). Fidelity Digital Assets Research found that bitcoin continues to anchor market resilience as capital remains concentrated in that asset; momentum and profitability indicators signal an...
If Kalshi and Polymarket begin offering crypto perpetual futures, they will be entering one of the biggest and riskiest parts of crypto trading, CNBC reported Monday (April 27). Perpetual futures, or “perps,” make up more than 70% of centralized crypto exchanges’ volume, according to the report. It was reported last week that prediction...
President Donald Trump is warning bankers not to hold up new cryptocurrency legislation. Speaking during a crypto sector event at his Mar-a-Lago resort Saturday (April 25), Trump copied the stance his advisers had adopted in promoting the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, CoinDesk reported. The...
The internet had native formats for video, audio and files. It did not have one for money. Stablecoins changed that. They represent internet-native dollars that move like MP3s and work on any internet-connected device, worldwide. But as MP3s and peer-to-peer platforms like Napster proved, accessible...