stablecoins

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to minimize the volatility of the price of the stablecoin, relative to some "stable" asset or basket of assets. A stablecoin can be pegged to a cryptocurrency, fiat money, or to exchange-traded commodities.

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Who Needs Whom? Card Networks, Stablecoins and the Future of Payments
Who Needs Whom? Card Networks, Stablecoins and the Future of Payments
February 26, 2026  |  Blockchain

Here is the question nobody in polite payments circles wants to ask out loud: Do the card networks need stablecoins—or do stablecoins need the card...

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Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream
Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream
February 25, 2026  |  Investments

Tether Investments said it aims to promote the use of stablecoin payments by making a strategic investment in Whop, an internet market designed to help...

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Interoperability Is Missing Layer Connecting Blockchains to Merchant Systems
Interoperability Is Missing Layer Connecting Blockchains to Merchant Systems
February 25, 2026  |  Blockchain

Interoperability in crypto payments has long been discussed as a technical aspiration. Over the past several months, it has started to look more like a...

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Revolut Picked to Test Stablecoins in UK’s Regulatory Sandbox
Revolut Picked to Test Stablecoins in UK’s Regulatory Sandbox
February 25, 2026  |  Blockchain

Revolut is among four companies being tapped to test stablecoin use in the U.K. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Circle Bets on 2026 Growth After Stablecoin Transactions Skyrocket 247%
Circle Bets on 2026 Growth After Stablecoin Transactions Skyrocket 247%
February 25, 2026  |  Earnings

Could the world be shifting from an “information era” to a “value era” in which blockchain makes value transfer as native to the internet as...

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$154B in Illicit Crypto Flows Raises Stablecoin Questions
$154B in Illicit Crypto Flows Raises Stablecoin Questions
February 24, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

There’s an unavoidable paradox at the heart of stablecoins’ growth story. The tokenized assets promise to modernize money by making dollars programmable, portable and instantaneous,...

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Meta Hopes to Launch Stablecoin Payments Project This Year
Meta Hopes to Launch Stablecoin Payments Project This Year
February 24, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Meta is hoping to enter the stablecoin payment space sometime this year, CoinDesk reported Tuesday (Feb. 24), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Payoneer Aims to Launch Stablecoin-Focused Digital Bank
Payoneer Aims to Launch Stablecoin-Focused Digital Bank
February 24, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Cross-border payment FinTech Payoneer applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open a digital bank, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 24)...

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Stripe Reaches $159B Valuation as Global Volume Hits $1.9 Trillion 
Stripe Reaches $159B Valuation as Global Volume Hits $1.9 Trillion 
February 24, 2026  |  Fintech Investments

Stripe was valued at $159 billion in a tender offer designed to provide liquidity to current and former employees, the programmable financial services company said...

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