Payments
Infrastructure

Tether executive warns the 2026 midterms could have 'seismic impact' on crypto industry

Jesse Spiro, Head of Government Affairs at Tether, said at Consensus Miami 2026 that the midterms will be a key…
May 7, 2026
AI

Amazon Builds AI Agent Payments With Coinbase and Stripe

Bedrock AgentCore Payments turns Amazon’s agent platform into a transactional layer, with Coinbase supplying x402 stablecoin rails and Stripe contributing…
May 7, 2026
Infrastructure

Ondo, JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple Complete First Cross-Border Tokenized Treasury Settlement on XRP Ledger

Four financial heavyweights settled tokenized U.S. Treasuries across borders and banks in under five seconds, connecting the XRP Ledger to…
May 7, 2026
Institutional

UAE-regulated stablecoins to develop AED-USD conversion rails for institutional settlement

The framework will enable near-instant conversion between dirham- and dollar-denominated stablecoins under the United Arab Emirates’s regulated payment token system.…
May 7, 2026
Institutional

Ripple, JPMorgan settle first cross-border tokenized Treasury redemption on XRP Ledger

The pilot, run with Ondo Finance and Mastercard, processed the redemption of Ondo’s OUSG tokenized Treasury fund in under five…
May 7, 2026
Payments

Stablecoin adoption to scale on back of big tech firms: Bitwise

Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan says projections tipping stablecoins to hit $4 trillion in value by 2030 could happen if…
May 7, 2026
Payments

Boltz Launches Non-Custodial USDC Swaps, Bridging Bitcoin Directly to Circle’s Regulated Dollar

Bitcoin Magazine Boltz Launches Non-Custodial USDC Swaps, Bridging Bitcoin Directly to Circle’s Regulated Dollar Boltz today enabled trustless Bitcoin-to-USDC swaps…
May 6, 2026
Payments

Reform UK’s Farage Claims 'No Obligation' to Declare Tether Billionaire's $6.7M Gift

Farage insisted that the gift from Christopher Harborne was for his personal security and had been reviewed “from every legal…
May 6, 2026
Payments

Banking lobby attempts to kill Clarity Act’s stablecoin progress as markup is scheduled for next week

US banks are mounting an aggressive lobbying effort to stall the CLARITY Act, even as key US lawmakers signal a…
May 6, 2026
Institutional

Stablecoin industry opposes Bank of England’s unhosted wallet ban

The crypto industry in the UK has come out against the Bank of England’s proposed policy that would ban custodial…
May 6, 2026