#payments

For five decades, Swift has been the invisible backbone of the global financial system — the messaging layer that enables more than 11,500 banks across 200 countries and territories to communicate about

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Visa has announced the launch of its validator node on Stripe's purpose-built payments blockchain, Tempo. Tempo is incubated by Paradigm and Stripe and is designed to enable high-throughput, low-cost global

The future is agentic, this is no longer a prediction but a reality that every major and minor system is adapting to. The business world is expected to see major impacts because of artificial intelligence.

Stablecoins are the strongest real-world signal that blockchain payments are not theoretical anymore. It's already happening. Image source Annual stablecoin transaction volumes are growing at an astounding

In recent report, Opera, the Norweigan browser company, is moving to replace US dollar payments with crypto payments, in an agreement restructuring with the Celo ecosystem. Image source Opera, a Nasdaq-listed

KEY FACTS: Visa and Stripe-backed blockchain project Tempo simultaneously launched complementary tools to enable AI agents to perform autonomous and secure online payments, addressing the growing demand

I've a simple question to ask - can you meaningfully spend any cryptocurrency in your local city centre? A few months ago, my wife and I went on a 30 day Interrail holiday across Europe. 10 countries,

KEY FACTS: Revolut, Europe's most valuable startup valued at $75 billion, has finally secured a full UK banking license from the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority on March 11, 2026, after

It’s how deeply it integrates into everyday financial systems. 🧡

KEY FACTS: Global insurance brokerage Aon has successfully completed a pioneering pilot program, described as the first known instance of major international brokers settling insurance premiums using

See you next Tuesday!

KEY FACTS: PayPal, in collaboration with crypto infrastructure provider MoonPay and stablecoin platform M0, announced the launch of PYUSDx, a new tokenization and issuance framework designed to enable

Meta is quietly gearing up to roll out stablecoin payments in the second half of 2026. This time Mark isn't bothering with his own token (lessons from Libra/Diem apparently learned). Instead they're building

KEY FACTS: Oobit, a Tether-backed mobile crypto payments app, has launched a feature allowing users to transfer cryptocurrencies directly from self-custody wallets to bank accounts worldwide, converting

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Thanks to all delegators and coin holders

KEY FACTS: Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure platform acquired by Stripe for $1.1 billion in 2025, announced on February 17, 2026, that it has received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of

This evening we had a community get together meeting which was surprisingly well attended with 30-35 people. This is out of 93 properties so the turnout was the most I have seen over the years. The last