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Digital assets may reach the checkout faster by asking consumers to change less about how they pay. The July 2026 Payments Innovation Tracker, “From Asset to Everyday Money: Making Digital Currencies Spendable,” says cryptocurrencies and stablecoins are moving beyond investment. Consumers want to use them...
Ripple reportedly considers the corporate treasury space a $13 trillion opportunity for its stablecoin business. Jack McDonald, Ripple’s senior vice president of stablecoins, said in an interview with CoinDesk on Sunday (Sept. 13) that one of the biggest opportunities is Ripple Treasury. That’s the business...
The Association for the Development of Digital Assets (ADAN) and 27 partners across Europe are calling on European Union policymakers to authorize higher transaction volumes under the DLT Pilot Regime (DLTPR) within the European Commission’s Market Integration and Supervision Package (MISP), ADAN said in a...
Traditional financial institutions and companies seeking permission to issue payment stablecoins are redesigning their compliance systems as regulators move to implement the GENIUS Act. The work extends beyond ensuring that tokens are fully backed. Banks, credit unions, cryptocurrency-native businesses and other prospective issuers must determine...
Republican lawmakers circulated a new version of the Clarity Act on Thursday (Sept. 10), ahead of the Senate’s return from its recess next week, CoinDesk reported Thursday. The new text of the crypto bill includes tweaks to how it would address the crypto activities of...
Nasdaq Ventures has agreed to invest $100 million in Payward, the parent company of Kraken, Nasdaq said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) press release. The investment of part of a broader expansion of the partnership between Nasdaq and Payward that will also see the companies...
Stablecoins have gotten boring, fast. That’s good news for the industry, which is working to ensure end-users stop thinking of stablecoins as “stablecoins” and start treating them as an always-on layer for moving liquidity, extending credit, and settling financial obligations. The most important stablecoin developments this...
Coinbase has teamed with payments platform Moov to offer stablecoin capabilities to community banks. The partnership, announced Thursday (Sept. 10), aims to add acceptance, settlement and real-time funding, built directly into the systems the banks already use. “Community banks and credit unions have witnessed their customers use digital assets for...
Coinbase’s CEO is reportedly touting stablecoin payments as a key revenue driver for the cryptocurrency exchange. The company is working with banks, FinTechs and other businesses to move more payment activity into stablecoins, Brian Armstrong said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore Thursday (Sept....