Stripe, Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard, and 140 others are backing a stablecoin that shares reserve yield with distribution partners. With the Coinbase-Circle agreement expiring in August, the timing is not coincidental.
Visa’s adjusted onchain data shows USDC dominates real economic activity — even as USDT remains larger by market cap. For agent payment platforms, the settlement currency decision is increasingly made for them.
Mastercard’s $1.8B stablecoin acquisition and 31-partner AP4M launch signal the institutional stamp on machine-to-machine commerce. The real story is the bridge players operating across both card rails and open-protocol stablecoin networks.
Robinhood is building a trading tool contained behind safety rails. Coinbase is building a self-sufficient economic actor that can pay for its own research and transact with other agents. The divergence reveals more than a product launch.
AWS, Google, Cloudflare, Visa, and Stripe are embedding the protocol into core infrastructure. That’s the structural shift — the 169M transaction milestone is just the noise around it.
Fed survey shows a decline in US adult crypto usage to 7% in 2023, with only 1% using it for transactions.
Major tech companies form a coalition to tackle the surge romance and crypto scams.
Fidelity’s updated ETF filing drops staking options amid regulatory concerns, impacting the crypto investment landscape.
Robinhood’s digital assets division becomes the SEC’s latest legal opponent.
Software firm Consensys seeks court ruling to stop SEC from classifying Ethereum as a security.