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Bank of England Pilots Digital Pound-Stablecoin Trade Payments: Which Fintech Providers Involved?
Blockchain & Crypto

Bank of England Pilots Digital Pound-Stablecoin Trade Payments: Which Fintech Providers Involved?

NOBO Finance, Dun & Bradstreet and Polygon Labs have been selected to take part in Phase 2 of the Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab. The programme is a sandbox where the central bank and outside companies test, with no real money involved, whether a digital pound could work alongside other forms of digital money, […]

Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi Approval to Sell Tokenized Stocks
Blockchain & Crypto

Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi Approval to Sell Tokenized Stocks

Coinbase has received regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi to offer tokenized securities, a step that lets the crypto exchange bring traditional stocks onto the blockchain outside the United States.

Ravencoin Rollback Highlights Unexpected Blockchain Settlement Risk
Blockchain & Crypto

Ravencoin Rollback Highlights Unexpected Blockchain Settlement Risk

P2P blockchain network Ravencoin is facing a serious test of transaction finality after a critical flaw affected its blockchain. Two mining pools controlling most of the network’s hashpower are rebuilding the chain from before the first invalid block, potentially putting around four days of transactions at risk of reversal.

Sygnum Data Shows 75% Singapore Investors Already Hold Tokenized Assets
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Sygnum Data Shows 75% Singapore Investors Already Hold Tokenized Assets

Singapore’s wealthiest and most experienced investors are not waiting for regulators to catch up. New research from digital asset bank Sygnum shows that three in four of the city-state’s high-net-worth and professional investors already own tokenized assets, at the same time as the country’s financial regulator is asking the public whether ordinary retail investors should […]

Western Union Launches Stablecard With Rain in 37 Markets
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Western Union Launches Stablecard With Rain in 37 Markets

Western Union has launched the Stablecard app, a digital wallet and Visa card that lets people hold and spend U.S. dollar value backed by a stablecoin. The company built the product with Rain, a stablecoin infrastructure provider. Stablecard is live in 37 markets, and Western Union plans to expand to more than 60 markets by […]

Tokenized Stock Trading Hits Record in July, but Fee-Free Promotion Questions Real Demand
Blockchain & Crypto

Tokenized Stock Trading Hits Record in July, but Fee-Free Promotion Questions Real Demand

Tokenized stock trading reached a record high in July, but new data suggests the headline growth may not reflect the broader market.

Stablecoin Firm BALBOA | CORP Brings Former Paxos Executive on Board
Blockchain & Crypto

Stablecoin Firm BALBOA | CORP Brings Former Paxos Executive on Board

Panama-based stablecoin infrastructure company BALBOA | CORP has strengthened its advisory board by appointing former Paxos treasury executive Austin Campbell and fintech entrepreneur Richard Douglas, as it develops payment technology designed for international shipping and trade.

Solana RWA Volume Tops $3.6B as Alpenglow Update Nears Mainnet
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Solana RWA Volume Tops $3.6B as Alpenglow Update Nears Mainnet

Solana, a blockchain network known for fast and low-cost transactions, is rolling out a technical overhaul called Alpenglow. The upgrade is designed to confirm transactions in about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds today. 

What Is Tokenized Money?
Blockchain & Crypto

What Is Tokenized Money?

Tokenized money is a blanket term, not a single instrument. It covers at least four distinct categories of digital claims. Each of them has a different issuer, a different legal status, and a different settlement risk profile. Under this blanket sit stablecoins, tokenized deposits, tokenized money market fund (MMF) shares, and wholesale or central bank […]

BNY Mellon Moves $8.6 Trillion in Fund Records Onto Blockchain
Blockchain & Crypto

BNY Mellon Moves $8.6 Trillion in Fund Records Onto Blockchain

BNY Mellon has launched a blockchain-based transfer agency platform that will record fund transactions and investor ownership onchain. The initiative covers a business that services approximately $8.6 trillion in assets across 7.6 million investor accounts, significantly expanding blockchain’s role beyond pilot projects. 

Coinbase Brings AI Agent Payments to Businesses
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Coinbase Brings AI Agent Payments to Businesses

Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from a shopping assistant into an economic participant. Coinbase has taken a significant step in that transition by enabling Coinbase Business users to accept payments directly from AI agents through the x402 protocol, one of the clearest commercial deployments yet of agentic payment infrastructure. 

Agentic Payments Protocol Battle Intensifies: Visa, Mastercard, x402, UnionPay Fight for AI Money Standards
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Agentic Payments Protocol Battle Intensifies: Visa, Mastercard, x402, UnionPay Fight for AI Money Standards

The race to build the payment infrastructure of the AI-agent economy is entering a new phase, with global payment networks and technology companies competing to define how machines will identify, authorize and execute transactions.

Visa Launches Institutional Stablecoin Platform as Regulatory Framework Remains Unfinished
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Visa Launches Institutional Stablecoin Platform as Regulatory Framework Remains Unfinished

Visa has unveiled a new institutional stablecoin platform, marking another step in the payment giant’s expansion beyond traditional card processing towards blockchain-based financial infrastructure. The new tool is not a consumer payment product. The initiative is designed to support institutional participants managing stablecoin operations at scale instead.

Swiss Fintech Week and Point Zero Forum 2026 Recap
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Swiss Fintech Week and Point Zero Forum 2026 Recap

This year, PaySpace Magazine Global team had a chance to visit Point Zero Forum, which ran alongside Swiss Fintech Week 2026, held in Zurich from June 19 to June 25. The two parallel events covered AI adoption in banking, agentic commerce, and the infrastructure for programmable money. As those topics are among the most-discussed within […]

PayPal USD Launches Natively on Polygon, Joining $2.6 Trillion Stablecoin Network
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PayPal USD Launches Natively on Polygon, Joining $2.6 Trillion Stablecoin Network

PayPal USD (PYUSD) is now issued natively on Polygon through Paxos and made available via the Polygon Open Money Stack, the network’s payments infrastructure for moving money globally.

Xweave Integrates Solana to Power Real-Time Treasury Stablecoin Settlement Across APAC
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Xweave Integrates Solana to Power Real-Time Treasury Stablecoin Settlement Across APAC

Singapore-based crypto and blockchain payments infrastructure platform Xweave has integrated Solana’s settlement layer into its institutional treasury product. The company announced the update at the Point Zero Forum in Zurich on June 24. This move targets one of corporate treasury’s oldest structural problems: the need to pre-fund accounts in multiple jurisdictions just to move money […]