Payments
Infrastructure

Circle Names BlackRock, Visa and DTCC Among 11 Founding Validators for Arc

Circle recruited a validator set almost entirely from traditional finance for Arc’s Sept. 16 mainnet launch, landing the news alongside…
Aug 6, 2026
Payments

Putin Signs Russia’s First Comprehensive Crypto Law, Capping Retail Buys at $3,700 a Year

Russia’s new law licenses exchanges and grants holders legal protection, but the provision with real teeth is the carve-out for…
Aug 6, 2026
Infrastructure

Visa Widens Stablecoin Payouts via Zerohash Rails

Eligible Visa Direct clients can now prefund accounts and send payouts in stablecoins, expanding Visa’s latest push to bring blockchain-based…
Aug 5, 2026
Markets

Dinari Opens 724 Tokenized US Stocks to Eligible US Investors

Dividends on Dinari’s dShares now pay out natively in USDC, while 24/7 trading and T+0 settlement remain future capabilities the…
Aug 5, 2026
Infrastructure

Circle Names BlackRock, Visa, ICE and DTCC Among 11 Founding Arc Validators

Circle’s own disclaimer says Arc will be “operated by a permissioned validator set” and has not been reviewed by the…
Aug 5, 2026
Payments

Russia Passes Law to Regulate Crypto Exchanges, Keeps Payment Ban in Place

Bitcoin Magazine Russia Passes Law to Regulate Crypto Exchanges, Keeps Payment Ban in Place New crypto regulations have been signed…
Aug 5, 2026
AI

Cloudflare Opens Stablecoin Wallet Handles as It Builds the Buy Side of Agent Payments

Cloudflare is rolling out Account Wallets for humans and Virtual Wallets for AI agents, settling in stablecoins over x402, with…
Aug 5, 2026
AI

Cloudflare introduces wallets for AI agents, plans stablecoin payments

Cloudflare introduced programmable Wallets for AI agents and said payment features using stablecoins will launch in a future update. Read…
Aug 5, 2026
Infrastructure

BlackRock Launches Tokenized Money Market Funds on Solana, Ethereum

BlackRock launched a tokenized money market fund for stablecoin reserves that uses Solana alongside Ethereum. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co…
Aug 3, 2026
Infrastructure

BlackRock launches tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves

The asset manager introduced two blockchain-based money market funds designed to qualify as stablecoin reserve assets under the US GENIUS…
Aug 3, 2026