Payments

Citi provides the fiat account and bank-of-record settlement in both products, and Coinbase handles every step involving a stablecoin. Coinbase’s documentation shows Citi-powered virtual accounts taking ACH and Fedwire deposits and converting them 1:1 into USDC, with Base as the documented sweep network. Spring’s tokens, chains, pricing, settlement times and volumes are unpublished. Th...

Global businesses need payment infrastructure that works across cards, bank transfers, local methods and digital assets. Discover how Coinspaid and PayAdmit combine fiat orchestration with blockchain infrastructure to reduce complexity, support cross-border commerce and scale payment operations....

Trust in giving erodes through opacity far more than through fraud. Donors rarely lose money to theft; they lose the ability to connect a gift to an outcome. Blockchain donation systems improve transparency through four capabilities: immutable records, traceable fund flows, programmable release conditions and near real time visibility. A milestone smart contract can lock […]...

RPAA registration in Canada applies to many payment service providers, including some international businesses serving Canadian users, and it is often separate from FINTRAC MSB registration....

Tens of millions of European Economic Area (EEA) users lost access to USDT on major centralized exchanges, including Binance, Coinbase, and Kraken, following the enforcement of the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The central point of contention is a MiCA rule requiring “significant” stablecoin issuers to hold at least 60% of their reserves within […]...

Stablecoins don’t make headlines the way Bitcoin and memecoins do. There’s no drama in a coin that costs exactly one dollar, until you realize that coin just processed more transactions in a single year than Visa and Mastercard combined. Key Takeaways: Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies pegged to stable assets, most commonly the U.S. dollar, and have […]...

Mastercard is preparing one of its biggest crypto-related acquisitions yet, with plans to buy Chicago-based Zero Hash for nearly $2 billion, according to a Fortune report citing multiple sources familiar with the negotiations. The deal, though not finalized, would mark Mastercard’s most significant bet on stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure to date. Zero Hash builds back-end […]...