Africa’s largest payments infra provider just made its move... onchain. Flutterwave has chosen Polygon as its default blockchain to launch low-cost cross-border stablecoin payments for millions of consumers and global corporations, like Uber and Audiomack. This marks one of the largest real-world stablecoin deployments in emerging markets to date, spanning 30+ African countries.show more

.Stellar has selected Zebec as its global stablecoin payroll... infrastructure provider for the Stellar ecosystem. This expands our partnership with one of the original blockchain networks in crypto, powering global payments and remittances, including a direct integration to MoneyGram's 50 million customers across Latin America and beyond.show more

Compliant Euro Stablecoin Goes Live on Stellar Blockchain According... to an official announcement, AllUnity's Euro stablecoin is now live on Stellar $XLM. $EURAU is fully-backed by reserves and is fully compliant with European regulations around crypto, blockchain and stables. According to Stellar, the launch brings... "euro liquidity onchain, unlocking fast, low-cost cross-border payments and institutional-grade settlement at scale."show more

EURC is now live on World Chain! Following the... launch of USDC and CCTP earlier this year, developers and businesses on World Chain can now access the world’s largest euro stablecoin for a range of use cases: → User-verified payments: Use EURC and World ID to send and receive euro payments with verified humans to reduce fraud. → DeFi and financial services: Power trading and lending with 24/7 onchain euro settlement → Global euro savings: Offer digital euro savings accounts for users in emerging markets seeking a reliable store of value With World Chain, EURC is supported natively on 6 blockchains, bringing euro liquidity to a growing global ecosystem. Get started:show more

Polygon Hits Visa Like Payment Speeds Polygon (Polygon |... POL) says its network now supports up to 5,000 payments per second following a recent upgrade. According to the team, that puts Polygon in the same tier as Visa's average daily payment load, while operating at a fraction of the cost. The milestone comes as Polygon's Open Money Stack enters technical preview, targeting stablecoin payments, neobanks, and financial institutions through a single integrated API.show more

🚨LATEST: POLYMARKET IS DITCHING USDC AND LAUNCHING ITS OWN... STABLECOIN Prediction market giant Polymarket is set to launch its own stablecoin, 'Polymarket USD,' replacing the existing bridge-based USDC currently used on the platform. According to CoinDesk, the new collateral-backed stablecoin is designed to overhaul the platform's payment and trading architecture. Polymarket has described the move as "the largest infrastructure upgrade since its launch." The rollout will be carried out in phases over the coming weeks, alongside upgrades to its trading engine and smart contracts.show more

Your digital wallet is about to go global. Say... hello to PayPal World. PayPal and Venmo are partnering with some of the world's largest payment systems and digital wallets - starting with Mercado Pago, NPCI International Payments Limited, and Tenpay Global - to make cross-border payments a breeze. Shop virtually anywhere. Accept payments globally. Send money between Venmo and PayPal. This will change everything! Learn more:show more

🚨HAPPENING NOW: IS TETHER'S $USDT ABOUT TO LOSE ITS... PEG?! Tether's world-leading USD stablecoin has dropped to its lowest price in five years. $USDT is currently priced at around $0.998 but dropped as low as $0.9973 in the early hours of this morning. The stablecoin boasts a market cap of more than $185 billion and is responsible for the majority of crypto trading.show more

SWIFT Unveils Blockchain Ledger For Global Banks SWIFT has... launched its blockchain based ledger for initial use after nine months of development. Seventeen major banks, including HSBC, Citi and UBS, will pilot cross border payments using tokenized bank deposits. The platform supports round the clock payments while preserving existing compliance, risk and settlement standards. SWIFT plans to expand the ledger after the initial controlled rollout.show more

Korea's biggest bank just ran a won stablecoin end-to-end... KB Financial Group, parent of KB Kookmin, completed a proof of concept covering the full lifecycle of a won-denominated stablecoin, from issuance through offline payments, merchant settlement, and overseas remittance. The retail test ran at a Hollys coffee kiosk, keeping the normal checkout while moving back-end settlement to blockchain. A cross-border leg converted the won stablecoin to a dollar stablecoin via Kaia's on-chain liquidity, then paid out to a Vietnamese bank account in three minutes, down from days, cutting fees roughly 87% versus traditional rails. KB Kookmin is South Korea's largest bank, with about $266 billion in assets. It wants to launch the moment Korea's digital asset law lands.show more

🚨UPDATE: RIPPLE RELEASES INSTITUTIONAL DEFI BLUEPRINT FOR $XRPL WITH... $XRP AS SETTLEMENT BACKBONE Ripple published its Institutional DeFi roadmap Feb 5, positioning $XRPL as "an end-to-end operating system for real-world finance" with $XRP playing a central role in payments, liquidity, and credit markets. $XRPL ranked among the top 10 chains for real-world assets and surpassed $ 1 B in monthly stablecoin volume.show more

CIRCLE SETTLES $68 MILLION INTERNALLY WITH USDC IN JUST... 30 MINUTES Circle has started using its own $USDC stablecoin for corporate treasury moves, completing $68M across eight entities in under 30 minutes. This bypasses slow traditional bank wires that can take days. CEO Jeremy Allaire calls it the company “eating its own dog food,” a clear sign stablecoins are going mainstream for real-world business payments and efficiency.show more

Tenet announces the launch of its native bridge, designed... around LayerZero Labs technology, on mainnet. This marks a critical milestone in Tenet’s evolution as it allows LSDs to be bridged to Tenet for the first time, in preparation for the launch of restaking and Tenet’s stablecoin, LSDC. Utilising the bridge, Tenet has unlocked omnichain access to the vast reserves of idle LSDs across other networks, bringing additional utility and opportunity to LSDfi.show more

USDC and CCTP V2 are now live on XDC... Network! Institutions, developers, and businesses on XDC can now access the world’s largest regulated stablecoin for key use cases: ✅ Global Trade Finance: Settle tokenized invoices, letters of credit, and other trade instruments ✅ RWA Tokenization: Issue and exchange tokenized assets like treasuries, private credit, and real estate ✅ Enterprise Payments: Enable fast, low-cost, B2B and cross-border transactions Day 1 partners: Fireblocks SBI XDC Network APAC 株式会社 With XDC, USDC is supported natively on 26 blockchains and securely moves across 15 with CCTP V2. Get started today:show more

🌍 The 2025 State of the USDC Economy Report... is here! USDC continues to demonstrate its strength as a leading platform for global financial inclusion. Dive into the highlights from the past year: USDC circulation grew 78% year-over-year, outpacing the growth rate of all other large, global stablecoins. USDC’s total all-time transaction volume has surpassed $20 trillion, with a monthly transaction volume of $1 trillion in November 2024. Accessible to more than 500 million end-users through digital wallets and consumer apps, USDC is helping to lead the mainstream adoption of digital dollars. In 2024, Circle became: ✔️ The first major global stablecoin issuer to comply with EU’s MiCA ✔️ The first stablecoin issuer to meet Canada’s listing rules We’re setting the standard for trust, transparency, and resilience in digital finance. From remittances and payments to humanitarian aid, this year’s report showcases how USDC is driving real-world impact with leading global innovators including Bullish, Chipper Cash, Coinbase 🛡️, dYdX, Mastercard, MoneyGram, Nubank, Standard Chartered, Stripe, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Goodwall, Worldpay, Zodia Markets, Ensuro, Lemon Argentina USDC supports financial access in 180+ countries, providing low-cost, secure access to digital dollars. Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) has now facilitated $20B+ in USDC transfers across supported blockchain networks. USDC is powering the rise of an open, programmable financial system—one that is faster, cheaper, and inherently global. Explore the 2025 State of the USDC Economy Report to learn more about our journey:show more

Roqqu partners with Ondo Finance to drive the Global... adoption of Real-World Assets Hundreds of trillions of dollars in financial assets exist today. Only a fraction of 1% of them have been tokenized. This imbalance represents one of the largest opportunities in modern finance as capital markets increasingly move on-chain. From Stocks and ETFs to bonds, commodities, and REITs, financial institutions around the world are exploring tokenization as a more efficient way to issue, distribute, and access financial assets. Against this backdrop, we are going into a strategic partnership with Ondo Finance, one of the world's leading issuers of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), to expand access to institutional-grade tokenized financial products across emerging markets. This partnership combines Ondo's leadership in bringing traditional financial assets on-chain and Roqqu's growing distribution network in emerging markets, creating new pathways for investors to participate in the next evolution of global capital markets. At a time when tokenized assets are rapidly emerging as one of the fastest-growing segments of digital finance, both companies share a common belief: the future of finance is tokenized.show more

🚨LATEST: AVALANCHE LANDS BROADRIDGE DEAL AS $8T GIANT MOVES... SHAREHOLDER VOTES ON-CHAIN Broadridge Financial Solutions, one of Wall Street's most powerful technology firms, has chosen Avalanche (Avalanche🔺) to host its new on-chain proxy voting infrastructure. The platform, which already handles $8 trillion in tokenized assets monthly, will now allow broker-dealers, wealth managers, and retail investors to vote on corporate matters directly on a public blockchain. Galaxy will be the first U.S. public company to put its shareholder vote on-chain, starting with its May annual meeting. Broadridge says the move is designed to support the large-scale adoption of digital assets as tokenization sweeps across global finance. The announcement marks one of the most significant real-world institutional deployments on Avalanche to date.show more

S&P Global Ratings, the world’s leading provider of credit... ratings, benchmarks, and analytics referenced by 95% of the top 20 global institutional investors, has partnered with Chainlink to publish its Stablecoin Stability Assessments (SSAs) onchain for the first time through DataLink. Through this partnership, more than 2,400 institutions, protocols, and developers in the Chainlink ecosystem can now directly access these assessments across 40+ public and private blockchains. This milestone marks a major leap forward in the capital markets’ adoption of tokenized finance. As S&P Global increasingly moves onchain, the company brings with it: • Over 1 million credit ratings outstanding • 1,500+ credit analysts across 150+ countries • Ratings coverage for ~1 million securities • 4,600+ corporates rated globally The stablecoin market now exceeds $300 billion, nearly doubling from a year prior. With the passage of the GENIUS Act, the first U.S. federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, these digital assets are now positioned as core financial infrastructure for global payments, trade, and settlement. However, institutions seeking to integrate stablecoins require transparent, standardized, and verifiable onchain risk insights to do so responsibly. S&P Global Ratings’ SSAs fill that gap. These assessments evaluate a stablecoin’s ability to maintain parity with fiat currencies, scored from 1 (very strong) to 5 (weak), based on asset quality, governance, liquidity, redemption mechanisms, and track record. Chainlink infrastructure, which actively secures nearly $100 billion in DeFi TVL and has enabled more than $25 trillion in onchain transaction value, ensures these assessments are delivered with industry-standard reliability, security, and data integrity. This partnership signals the beginning of a new era in financial markets, where real-time, institutionally validated risk data becomes the foundational layer of onchain finance. Learn more:show more

WORLD LIBERTYFI'S $USD1 HAD A MASSIVE Q1 2026 WLFI's... $USD1 stablecoin hit a nearly $5.4B market cap in February, growing roughly +64% in the space of just over one month. Late last year, the Abu Dhabi-backed investment firm MGX used USD1 to close a $2 billion investment in Binance, marking the largest stablecoin-settled transaction in crypto history. Three bullish 2026 developments also stand out... (1) SOVEREIGN ADOPTION: In January, Pakistan signed an agreement with a WLF-affiliated company to explore using USD1 for cross-border payments. (2) RWA EXPANSION: In February, WLFI tapped BlackRock-backed Securitize to tokenize loan interests tied to the Trump International Hotel and Resort in the Maldives. (3) DEFI LAUNCH: World Liberty Markets went live in January as $WLFI's first DeFi app, offering lending and borrowing with USD1 as the primary asset. A lot has happened since, not all of it straightforward. But the stablecoin's institutional traction early in 2026 was hard to ignore. Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are doing something right.show more

🚨JUST IN: CRYPTO(.)COM PARTNERS WITH SOUTH KOREA PAYMENT GIANT... KG INICIS Crypto(.)com (Crypto.com) has partnered with KG Inicis, South Korea's largest payment gateway provider, to expand crypto payments. The deal will integrate Crypto(.)com Pay into merchant networks. The move targets foreign travelers visiting South Korea. Users can pay for goods and services using digital assets. Merchants can settle instantly in fiat or crypto. The partnership aims to bridge crypto with real-world payments.show more