INXY Payments has now raised a total of $7 million in funding across two rounds to expand its global payments platform, enabling merchants accepting altcoins and stablecoins from their clients without extra crypto cash-out worries.
In a blockchain industry largely content to defer hard problems until they become crises, Circle is doing something unusual: solving one before it arrives.
Bitget Wallet has added the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and Ripple’s USD-pegged stablecoin RLUSD to its platform, giving more than 90 million users access to XRP-based payments, cross-border transfers, and on- and off-ramps between fiat and stablecoins.
Polygon has emerged as the leading blockchain network for USD-denominated stablecoin activity, according to newly released on-chain data, signaling a potential shift in the infrastructure underpinning digital finance.
From subscription management to stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure, this week delivered a concentrated burst of fintech news that signals where the industry’s attention and capital is pointing in early 2026. Here are the five stories shaping the conversation.
The line between traditional finance and decentralised finance is getting blurrier by the day and IAMTN has decided not to wait around for the dust to settle. The global trade association for cross-border payments has announced a strategic partnership with Next Generation NGPES, marking what both parties describe as a first-of-its-kind collaboration between an industry […]
Explore the 2026 stablecoin showdown between Apple Wallet and PayPal. Compare fees, usability, and global reach as PayPal expands PYUSD to 70 markets and Apple enables USDC payments via Apple Pay merchant integrations.
For most of financial history, sending money across borders has felt like mailing a letter through a postal system designed in the 1950s — slow, expensive, and surprisingly opaque. You hand your money to a bank, it disappears into a chain of intermediaries, and somewhere between two and five days later it reappears in another […]
Revolut is making a decisive push deeper into crypto. The fintech giant has now surpassed $1 billion in on-chain transactions on Polygon. This milestone highlights the firm’s own growing blockchain footprint while also signaling how quickly mainstream users are moving toward on-chain finance.
Circle Internet Group has announced a new collaboration with Sasai Fintech, a business of Cassava Technologies, aimed at expanding access to USDC stablecoin and strengthening digital financial infrastructure in Africa. The partnership focuses on reducing transaction costs, improving settlement speeds, and enabling more efficient cross-border payments across key African markets.
Hedge funds and family offices have watched prediction markets grow into a serious price-discovery tool but had no institutional way in. That changes today with BitGo Prime and Susquehanna Crypto collaboration.
As AI continues to reshape financial infrastructure, Stripe-backed Tempo is introducing a new payments protocol designed to enable intelligent, programmable transactions at scale.
Global payments firm Paysend has partnered with BVNK to introduce stablecoin payments and settlement capabilities across its consumer and enterprise platforms, signaling growing momentum for blockchain-based payments in the global remittance market.
As regulation decision-makers in Washington continue their debates on whether stablecoins should function strictly as digital payment tools rather than investment products, stablecoin yield is very much well-leveraged by local investors, who have been actively using onchain tools to earn yield on their stablecoin assets for several years now.
The United States is entering a new phase of cryptocurrency regulation, with lawmakers signaling strong resistance to central bank digital currencies (CBDC) while continuing to shape rules for private digital crypto assets such as stablecoins.
The payments giant Mastercard is uniting blockchain networks, crypto exchanges, stablecoin issuers, and traditional banks, including household names like Binance, Circle, PayPal, and Ripple, to bridge on-chain innovation with everyday commerce.
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