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After four years, Mercado Libre is reportedly phasing out its in-house cryptocurrency offering Mercado Coin. That’s according to a report Tuesday (March 31) from Coindesk, citing a notification from the eCommerce company’s digital wallet. Beginning April 17, users won’t be able to buy, sell or...
Cross-border payments/card issuance company Nium has launched its stablecoin card issuance platform. The solution is designed to let companies holding stablecoins issue spending cards on both the Visa and Mastercard networks through a single API integration, Nium said in a Monday (March 30) news release. This allows the coins to...
Singapore-based stablecoin payment infrastructure company StraitsX is reportedly seeing a surge in card transaction volume. Between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the same quarter last year, that volume surged 40-fold, Co-founder and CEO Tianwei Liu told CoinDesk Sunday (March 29). The number of cards issued saw an even...
Innovative technologies often rarely succeed in the way their earliest advocates predicted. And findings in “Waiting for Certainty: Why Most CFOs Are Holding Back on Crypto and Stablecoins,” the latest installment of the PYMNTS Intelligence exclusive series, The 2026 Certainty Project, reveal that stablecoins, once heralded as a bridge...
Coinbase has resolved an issue that sent push notifications about the company’s prediction markets offerings to customers who weren’t interested in them, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a Friday (March 27) post on X. Armstrong said this in a reply to a post in...
What’s a crypto market without volatility, anyway? On Tuesday (March 24), the alleged contents of a new draft of the proposed CLARITY Act sent a tremor through digital asset markets, The Wall Street Journal reported. The legislation, still under debate, aims to prohibit platforms from offering...
Stablecoin issuer Tether says it has engaged a “Big Four” accounting firm for its inaugural audit. The company’s “first full independent financial statement audit” is “slated to be the biggest ever inaugural audit in the history of financial markets,” Tether said in a Tuesday (March 25) news release....
Circle Internet Group and Sasai Fintech, a pan-African digital payments solution provider, have partnered to explore applications for Circle’s USDC stablecoin across Africa. Sasai Fintech, a business of Cassava Technologies, operates across key payment corridors and offers a suite of digital financial services that enables...
Middle market firms have spent the past several years widening their use of faster payments, embedded finance tools and data-driven treasury systems, yet digital assets remain outside that progression rather than part of it. The latest findings from PYMNTS Intelligence, as part of the Certainty...