Crypto executives say digital native generations may never need a bank account
Summary Crypto executives and bankers increasingly expect younger, digitally native consumers to rely on wallets
Trump targets Brazil’s payments system while dollar stablecoins are quietly overtaking country’s payments
Summary The United States will impose a 25% Section 301 tariff on most Brazilian goods
Japan’s SBI Group is building Asia’s first cross-border digital asset empire
Summary Japan’s SBI Group acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based crypto platform Coinhako as part
Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion
Summary Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing the company at $20 billion. The
Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments
Summary Industry commentators say a Stripe acquisition of PayPal would be driven less by PYUSD
Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle faces fresh competition
Summary Visa introduced the Visa Stablecoin Platform on Thursday, giving financial institutions tools to issue,
Keyrock acquires BlockFills trading assets to expand institutional crypto business
Summary Keyrock acquired the trading and brokerage assets of BlockFills’ institutional digital asset business. The
Crypto brokerage firm Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized stock infrastructure
Summary Alpaca raised $135 million to expand infrastructure for tokenized stocks, connecting traditional U.S. equities
Rebooting the internet: inside the open-source project to let AI programs pay each other
Summary The x402 protocol is a payments standard for internet-based transacting, to enable payments between
Tether invests $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as it expands Latin America push
Summary Tether invested $20 million in Ualá, an Argentine neobank with more than 11 million
