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.
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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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Ukraine Can Become Europe’s Blockchain Hub — Interview With Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron
Ukraine is among the global leaders in cryptocurrency usage; however, this has not yet led to a mass influx of global blockchain companies. Clear rules of the game, tax conditions, and regulatory certainty remain key factors for investors and technology projects. To understand what effective crypto regulation should look like and what prospects Ukraine has […]
The New Financial Order: Switzerland at the Centre of Europe’s Push to Shape the Future of Global Finance
How Stablecoins, AI, and Quantum Technologies are Igniting a Global Race to Control Finance
Icon Solutions Showcases IPF Digital Asset Capabilities for Bank Deployment
Fintech company Icon Solutions unveiled a demo of the IPF digital assets reference implementation helping banks to assess how they can use this payments infrastructure development framework for DLT-based digital assets support.
What’s on the SBC Summit Conference Agenda in 2026?
The gaming industry rarely looks the same from two different angles. From one perspective, it’s a story about expansion. From another, it’s about tightening regulations. Shift your view again, and the real pressure points appear: acquisition costs rising, payment friction increasing, product teams redesigning around compliance rather than creativity. SBC Summit’s conference agenda mirrors that […]
Kraken Moves to Bring Perpetual Futures Onshore in Landmark Shift for U.S. Crypto Traders
Crypto exchange Kraken has announced plans to launch the first CFTC-regulated perpetual futures contracts available to U.S. traders. The announcement arrives as parent company Payward accelerates a broader strategic pivot to a full-spectrum digital asset infrastructure company.
