Binance is reportedly ready to lead a new funding round for crypto payments company Mesh. That’s according to Axios, which says the round could value Mesh at up to $2 billion. The report, citing sources familiar with the matter, noted that the funding round comes amid...
The payments industry has become remarkably good at masking complexity from consumers. But merchants do not operate on the front end. Their concerns live in the back office. And with Revolut on Monday (May 18) unveiling its first physical cryptocurrency debit card, crypto’s next adoption phase...
Institutional adoption of cryptocurrency could be accelerated by passage of the CLARITY Act, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said Wednesday (May 13), according to a report by Binance News. Speaking during the Binance Online event, Garlinghouse said that banks need regulatory clarity because of the long...
The best money is often the biggest money. And while crypto scaled over the past decade by competing on consumer-facing products like exchanges, wallets, and trading apps, the sector’s future is shaping up to be a heavily institutional one, where the biggest value flows are....
May 29, 2025
Paying with crypto is a logistics problem, and that logistics problem creates a user experience bottleneck. Stablecoins want to solve that, but can they? “People hold their assets in crypto, but ‘pay with bitcoin’ is so 2019. Merchants don’t want to accept it, they want to accept stablecoins,” Mesh CEO and Co-founder Bam Azizi told PYMNTS […]
March 12, 2025
The mania in Washington around financial services regulation has settled a bit. In fact, the focus has now turned toward a decidedly traditional function in the nation’s capital, and that’s...
January 24, 2025
Nearly a week into his presidency, and Donald Trump has yet to mention bitcoin. But despite the absence by name of any one particular digital asset, the crypto world still...
January 10, 2025
The first few trading days of 2025 saw the FinTech IPO Index log a 1.2% gain — where one notable triple-digit surge led the pack. Overall, however, a spate of...
August 23, 2026
Cryptocurrency card spending has reportedly more than tripled in the last year amid increased retail purchasing. Spending on these cards came to $1.04 billion in July thanks to dollar-backed stablecoins and more people purchasing everyday items like groceries, CoinDesk reported Sunday (Aug. 23). Dollar-backed stablecoins were behind 70% of the more than 10 million tracked […]
July 05, 2026
Binance is reportedly ready to lead a new funding round for crypto payments company Mesh. That’s according to Axios, which says the round could value Mesh at up to $2 billion....
May 14, 2026
Institutional adoption of cryptocurrency could be accelerated by passage of the CLARITY Act, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said Wednesday (May 13), according to a report by Binance News. Speaking during...
April 12, 2026
Japan is reportedly moving closer to classifying cryptocurrencies as financial products. According to a report Friday (April 10) from Nikkei, a draft amendment before the country’s Cabinet would place crypto...
