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Coinflow Raises $2.2 Million to Build Financial Blockchain Tech
May 28, 2024

Instant settlement payment provider Coinflow Labs has raised $2.25 million in seed funding. The company said this funding round, announced Tuesday (May 28), will help it bolster its payments infrastructure solution, which is designed to reduce the time it takes for merchants to receive payments....

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MoonPay Debuts Tools For Web3 Digital Commerce
May 28, 2024

Web3 infrastructure firm MoonPay has launched Web3 Tools, a platform for “building mainstream-ready digital experiences.” The platform, announced Tuesday (May 28), expands on MoonPay’s payments and minting infrastructure to offer services such as authentication, identity verification, advanced token-gating, ticketing and insights. “The full potential of...

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This Week in Web3: ETFs, Scams, More Pushes for Acceptance
May 22, 2024

Can the world of payments and financial services embrace crypto and move on-chain? Maybe partly, and maybe one day. Ultimately, it all boils down to usability, regulation, and of course, investment into the space. Crypto regulation, for its part, is awaiting a potential shot in...

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Making Sense of Embedded DeFi’s Role in Web3’s Future
May 17, 2024

The Web3 space has its sights set on transforming payments and commerce via blockchain technologies. And with the news Wednesday (May 15) that Safe has announced the integration of native swaps directly within its Web3 SafeWallet platform, bringing the benefits of embedded decentralized finance (DeFi)...

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Bitcoin Payment Processor IBEX Pay to Suspend Services in US
May 16, 2024

Bitcoin payment processor IBEX Pay will suspend all its services in the United States, effective May 31. The company announced the move in a Wednesday (May 15) post on X (formerly Twitter). “Any outstanding balance will be transferred to our clients’ Swan accounts or Bitcoin addresses,” IBEX Pay...

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Stripe to Launch Support for Global Stablecoin Payments This Summer
April 25, 2024

Stripe is bringing back crypto payments after stopping them in 2018. John Collison, co-founder of Stripe, said in a Thursday (April 25) post on X (formerly Twitter): “Crypto is back.” Crypto is back. @Stripe will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and...

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Making Sense of Why FIs Are Tokenizing Real-World Assets 
April 19, 2024

The tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is emerging as more than just a token exercise. It’s another function of the blockchain landscape that has captured the imagination of various players across payments, finance and commerce: the ability for organizations to represent ownership rights of a...

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This Week in Web3: Bitcoin Halving, Stablecoins, Bankman-Fried
April 17, 2024

The bitcoin halving is imminent, and crypto is on everyone’s mind this week. That’s because the technical event, which happens every four years and serves to create more scarcity of the nominal cryptocurrency asset — of which only 21 million will ever exist — is...

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This Week in Web3: Usability, Utility and Oversight 
April 10, 2024

The next iteration of the internet, Web3, has been around for a while now.  Meta’s Reality Labs division — the arm of the tech giant that focuses on metaverse, mixed reality (MR), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives — is...