MILESTONE: 5,000 payments per second on Polygon. → Support... for 5,000 payments per second → Block times down to 1.5 seconds → Same low fees Billions in stablecoins already move on rails that just got faster. More: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

Local stablecoins are being used for real payments to... move money, settle invoices, and power remittances. This activity is concentrating on Polygon, which has processed $11.1B+ in non-USD stablecoin volume.show more

Stablecoin payouts are live on deel for employees. Over... 5 years ago, I joined deel as the first payments hire. I spent the first few years building out the fiat payment infrastructure that moves billions to workers across 150+ countries. The more I watched money move, the more I saw how broken cross border payments are. Stablecoins fix this. 10,000+ contractors already get paid in stablecoins on deel. Today we’re extending this to full-time employees. This is how payroll should be.show more

Polygon's Network Has Somehow Become EVEN FASTER! According to... data from Chainspect, Polygon | POL has set a new record for TPS at some 2,197. The milestone comes just two days after $POL set its previous TPS record. Indexing heavily into stablecoins and payments, Polygon is fast-becoming a household name in the crypto sector. What more does the team have planned for 2026...?!show more

Get paid in stablecoins, spend on Mastercard: Zebec rolls... out payroll on Stellar Zebec (Zebec Network) just put enterprise payroll on Stellar (Stellar). Employers can stream salaries and contractor payments in stablecoins, landing instantly in workers' wallets. From there, you can spend via Zebec's Mastercard-linked cards, or cash out to local currency through a global payout network. The pitch is real-time pay with a built-in off-ramp, wrapped in an HR dashboard for global teams. Per Zebec, several European institutions and multinational employers are already in final testing on the rails. Your payday on-chain once the pilots convert?show more

There are many cryptocurrencies, each designed to serve a... unique purpose. XRP is designed to help move money quickly and efficiently. It’s often discussed in the context of payments that settle faster and with lower fees than traditional systems. XRP can also act as a bridge between different currencies, helping value move from one place to another without relying on multiple intermediaries. Faster settlement and lower costs can make payments more accessible for businesses, institutions, and everyday users around the world.show more

Stablecoin on-chain transfer volume crossed $33T last year. Many... people still associate stablecoins with crypto speculation. But a growing share is tied to real-world payments: → Cross-border B2B payments → Merchant payments & settlement → Faster global settlement → 24/7 transfers that don't stop for weekends or holidays The speculation narrative is old. The infrastructure narrative is just getting started. #KONETshow more

Which one would you choose to build the future... of your Organization on? 🚀 Transactions per second: - HBAR - 10,000+ - XRP - 1,500+ - ETH - 12+ - BTC - 3+ Fees per transaction: - HBAR - $0.0001 - XRP - $0.0004 - ETH - $2.89 - BTC - $2.99 Speeds per transaction: - HBAR - 3-5 seconds - XRP - 3 seconds - ETH - 10-20 seconds - BTC - 10-60 minutes kWh per transaction: - HBAR - 0.000017 - XRP - 0.000011 - ETH - 102.968 - BTC - 885.179 Dominating in almost every category $HBAR is leading the way to the future! 🚀 🔥 💴show more

I've had some replies that this Pete Crow-Armstrong catch... IS actually a routine play, so here is a VERY similar play: The CF has the exact same distance to cover, and .2 of a second longer to get there. The CF (Carroll) was faster on the play, by about a foot per second. It's a double:show more

Across is now live on BNB Smart Chain. BSC... is the chain of choice for crypto users worldwide, from trading and gaming to DeFi and payments. Now, thanks to Across, you can move assets to and from BNB Chain in seconds, for cents. More details below ⤵️show more

Sui moved $65B in stablecoins in 5 days. Its... total supply is $472 million. Sui (Sui) cleared roughly $65 billion in stablecoin transfers over the past 30 days, fee-free. The catalyst: a May protocol change that zeroed out transfer fees and dropped the need to hold sui:native to move funds, per CertiK data. The number that reframes it: Sui's standing stablecoin supply is only about $472 million. So this isn't a flood of new capital, it's the same dollars recirculating fast as payments, exactly what the gasless design was built to do. Mysten Labs' pitched it as a settlement rail for businesses and AI agents, with Fireblocks already plugged in.show more

We shipped Flashblocks on Base Chain in July, making... transactions 10x faster by reducing effective block times from 2 seconds to 200ms Our engineering team put together a technical deep dive of the work it took In the spirit of building in public we're sharing more about the Flashblocks architecture on Base, the challenges we encountered, and what we learned shipping sub-second transactions Read the full blog 🧵show more

KASPA'S 2026 PIVOT: PAYMENTS RAIL TO PROGRAMMABLE L1 Kaspa... is shifting categories this year. The proof-of-work BlockDAG that runs at 10 blocks per second now has a roadmap pushing it from a fast payments chain into a programmable base layer. Igra Network went live in March as a decentralized EVM execution layer on top of Kaspa, hitting 3,000 transactions per second with 15 protocols deployed at launch and a clean Sigma Prime audit. KAS wraps 1:1 to iKAS as the network's gas token. The Toccata hard fork follows in June. It bundles native KRC-20 tokens, covenants, and zero-knowledge verification opcodes into Layer 1 through a new scripting language called SilverScript. $KAS trades around $0.036 with a $985 million market cap, up 12% on the week. Roughly 95% of the 28.7 billion supply is already mined. DAGKnight consensus is queued for Q3.show more

A traveler taps her card at a market thousands... of miles from home. The payment feels instant, simple, straightforward. It’s not. Behind that tap, money may need to move across currencies, banks, payment providers, and borders. Traditional systems often require companies to park funds in local accounts before they are needed, leaving capital stagnant for long periods of time where it’s not able to earn a return or be put to work. Members of the Avalanche Payments Collective are building a more efficient global payments model, one that keeps capital productive up until the moment it needs to move. Here are five members working across different parts of cross-border payments and treasury infrastructure: Axiym provides payment and treasury infrastructure that helps institutions route liquidity and settle transactions without pre-funding every market. Its technology supported Hyundai Motor America’s stablecoin payment to its Mexico affiliate, completed on Avalanche in minutes instead of days. Nonco helps institutions exchange currencies and stablecoins by requesting prices directly from a network of professional liquidity providers. That gives them access to more competitive rates while allowing both sides of the transaction to settle together onchain. SMBC, Japan’s second-largest bank, is exploring stablecoin infrastructure for wholesale institutional payments. It is also working alongside MUFG and Mizuho on a potential yen-pegged stablecoin initiative built on Avalanche. StraitsX is working with KBank through Project BLOOM to develop payment infrastructure that can improve settlement across Southeast Asian corridors where moving money remains particularly slow and expensive. AeraTech helps multinational companies manage cash across subsidiaries, offset internal obligations, and settle inter-company payments without unnecessarily routing every transaction through external banks. These different companies all represent or engage with different parts of the payment and treasury stack. But they all have a shared goal: keep capital working longer, move it when it is needed, and make cross-border payments faster and more efficient. That is what the Avalanche Payments Collective is bringing together. Frictionless, borderless payments that really are instant, simple, and straightforward.show more

USDC NANOPAYMENTS GO LIVE ACROSS 11 BLOCKCHAINS Circle has... rolled out gas free Nanopayments on mainnet across eleven blockchains. Supported networks include Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum and others. The system enables $USDC transfers as small as one millionth of a dollar. It is designed to power AI agents paying per action in real time. The feature allows near instant payments without gas fees. Transactions are verified instantly and settled later in batches onchain.show more

🌉 HOT Bridge Updates — What’s New and What’s... Next? 🌉 🚀 What’s already live: 🔥 TON network support. 🔥 Bridging to Omni. 🔥 New tokens added. 🔥 Firedrops now work on all networks. 🧐 What’s coming soon: 💙More liquidity 💙 Support for Ethereum, Arbitrum , Optimism, Polygon, and Aurora 💙 Autopilot — no need for gas in the destination network 💙 Cross-chain swaps for stablecoins 💙 HOT Bridge on a standalone website HOT Bridge has no fees, and we’re making it the main tool for your on-chain activities in the upcoming HOT Wallet web extension 💛show more

Fast, Scalable & Secure by Design 🌐 The LayerAI... network delivers high performance at scale – averaging 2-second block times with ultra-low fees. It has already processed over 6 million on-chain transactions, proving its reliability under real workloads. Uniquely, LayerAI’s Proof-of-Activity consensus ties security to usage: the network becomes more secure as adoption grows​. This means fast, cost-effective transactions without sacrificing security or decentralization. Explore the LayerAI infrastructure in action atshow more

The larger V3 Starlink satellites that will deploy from... Starship will bring gigabit connectivity to users and are designed to add 60 Tera-bits-per-second of downlink capacity to the Starlink network. That's more than 20 times the capacity added with every V2 Mini launch on Falcon 9show more