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.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Walmart-Backed OnePay Lets Customers Turn Stablecoins Into Checking Dollars
Walmart-Backed OnePay Lets Customers Turn Stablecoins Into Checking Dollars
November 03, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Walmart-backed OnePay is letting customers deposit stablecoins straight into their checking accounts, where the money arrives as U.S. dollars. The move puts a mainstream consumer...

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Payment Networks’ Earnings: Five Takeaways on Spending and Technology
Payment Networks’ Earnings: Five Takeaways on Spending and Technology
November 03, 2026  |  Earnings

Consumers kept their cards busy last quarter, and the latest quarterly earnings results from payment networks indicated a widening pursuit of transactions that begin with...

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AI Agents Could Control 5% of Cross-Border Payments. Who Controls Them?
AI Agents Could Control 5% of Cross-Border Payments. Who Controls Them?
November 03, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: Need to Know With Mural’s Sinclair Toffa As stablecoins, real-time payment networks and artificial intelligence converge, financial infrastructure providers are confronting the fact...

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OKX and Mastercard Bring Stablecoin Card to Most US States
OKX and Mastercard Bring Stablecoin Card to Most US States
November 02, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

OKX’s Mastercard-powered virtual card that unlocks stablecoin spending, OKX Card, is now available to eligible customers in most U.S. states and select territories, the company...

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Circle Urges SEC to Protect Permissionless Institutional Networks
Circle Urges SEC to Protect Permissionless Institutional Networks
November 02, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Circle is encouraging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to maintain technology neutrality and to clarify the treatment of different permissionless network structures as the...

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Binance Hack Puts Crypto Payment Security Under Scrutiny
Binance Hack Puts Crypto Payment Security Under Scrutiny
October 30, 2026  |  Cybersecurity

Binance’s pledge to absorb an estimated $6.3 billion theft leaves the exchange responsible for replacing customers’ assets while investigators pursue a recovery whose timing and...

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Ripple Moves Deeper Into Banking With Stablecoin Deals
Ripple Moves Deeper Into Banking With Stablecoin Deals
October 30, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins continue to seek mainstream usage and acceptance, and this week, Ripple was at the forefront. The company spent the week securing more places for...

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Former Swift CEO Lazaro Campos Joins Stablecoin Yield Platform OpenTrade
Former Swift CEO Lazaro Campos Joins Stablecoin Yield Platform OpenTrade
October 29, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Former Swift CEO Lazaro Campos joined stablecoin yield infrastructure provider OpenTrade as chair of the board, OpenTrade CEO and Co-Founder David Sutter said in a...

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Mastercard Pushes Back on Card Substitutes in AI Shopping
Mastercard Pushes Back on Card Substitutes in AI Shopping
October 29, 2026  |  Earnings

Mastercard wants artificial intelligence shopping agents to use tokenized versions of consumers’ chosen cards, preserving the payment preferences, rewards and controls attached to those accounts....

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