💳 Traditional card payments: Settlement in 2–3 days. 2–3%... fee split between card network, issuing bank, acquiring bank, and PG — none of whom are the merchant. Merchant sees the money on Tuesday. ⚡ KONET stablecoin payments: Settlement at the moment of transaction. Near-zero network cost. On-chain receipt issued instantly. The technology isn't the hard part. The hard part is building compliant infrastructure that connects to existing merchant networks. That's what KONET is. Not a product. Infrastructure. 🏗️ #KONET #Web3 #PaymentInfrastructureshow more

💳 A transaction hash proves that value moved. But... commerce needs more. 🧾 📦 Order records. 🧾 Receipt data. 🔄 Refund status. 💰 Settlement history. ✅ Merchant verification. 🛠️ KONET is building toward a Proof-of-Commerce layer for on-chain payment infrastructure. Because payments need context. 🔍 #KONET #ProofOfCommerce #OnchainDatashow more

🚀 The next phase of Web3 adoption will be... driven by real utility. Not just transfers. Not just listings. Not just visibility. KONET is focused on building a commerce-oriented mainnet where payments, merchant activity, and business records can connect on-chain. 🧩 Payment records 🏪 Merchant activity 📦 Commerce data 🔐 Verification infrastructure A mainnet for commerce. A layer for real-world adoption. #KONET #Mainnet #RealWorldAdoption #ProofOfCommerceshow 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

Target locations are beginning to charge customers the “merchant... fee” on every item they purchase This is the cost of credit and debit card processing fees Big box retails like Target have paid these fees in the past but has decided to now pass the cost onto the customer There was a major legal change with the ‘2025 Visa Mastercard interchange fee antitrust settlement with merchants’ This settlement gave retailers more legal leeway to stop fully absorbing fees and start passing some costs to card users American keep getting robbed blindshow 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

The BIS, Bundesbank, HKMA, and commercial banks across three... continents have been building #tokenisation infrastructure on separate tracks, and their published work points to the same three-layer architecture for #digitalmoney. 1. Central bank money at the base for settlement finality 2. Tokenised deposits in the middle for programmable commercial payments 3. Public blockchain and stablecoins at the top for liquidity and market access 4. Underpinning all three is a horizontal #interoperability layer that makes them work as a coherent system rather than three separate silos. We've mapped that convergence into a framework for any bank building tokenisation infrastructure this year, covering what each layer does, where the industry stands on deployment, and what to prioritise before committing capital to any single component. #TokenisedDeposits #Stablecoinsshow more

MetaMask users in Vietnam can now fund wallets straight... from a bank Banxa (Banxa) has switched on VietQR support for MetaMask 🦊, letting Vietnamese users top up the wallet with the same bank QR scan they already use for coffee and rent. MetaMask amplified the launch on Tuesday, calling it a direct bank-to-wallet on-ramp. Pricing is the real change. Card-based crypto purchases in Vietnam have run around 7%, while Banxa puts VietQR at a 3% flat rate. Banxa points to Vietnam as the fourth most crypto-adopted country, with roughly 15 million VietQR transfers clearing the NAPAS network daily and merchant acceptance near 85%.show more

🌍 Big Names. Bigger Vision. The Kima Story. From... central banks to global tech giants, Kima’s journey is powered by some of the most influential names in finance and technology, all united by one mission: making money move freely, securely, and compliantly across ecosystems. Here’s who’s shaping the future with us 👇 🏦 European Central Bank (ECB): Recognized by the ECB as a Pioneer in the Digital Euro Innovation Platform, where Kima showcased programmable public finance and conditional payments for real-world impact. 💰Commercial Bank International (CBI), Dubai: Partnering with Kima to power next-gen cross-border remittances from the UAE to major corridors like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, fast, compliant, and cost-efficient. 💶 Bank of Israel: Selected participant in the Digital Shekel Challenge, building innovative use cases for national digital currency integration. ☁️ Alibaba Cloud: Providing enterprise-grade infrastructure to run global Kima nodes, ensuring speed, reliability, and compliance at scale. 💳 Mastercard: Collaborating through sandbox pilots to enable real-time stablecoin top-ups, bridging traditional banking and blockchain rails. 🔗 Kima Network is the universal settlement layer making all this possible: connecting banks, blockchains, and digital assets in one interoperable system. Kima is the settlement backbone connecting banks, blockchains, and digital assets, where TradFi meets DeFi, for real. 🚀show more

🚨 ⚡ Breaking: I’m proud to share that has... raised $82 million in Series B funding to build the first truly global #crypto #payments #network – one that makes crypto as easy, seamless, and universal to use as fiat. Most of the investments were closed with PayPal USD (#PYUSD) stablecoin. This round, led by Paradigm (Charlie Noyes & Matt Huang) with participation from Consensys.eth , QuantumLight, Yolo Investments, Evolution VC, Hike Ventures, Opportuna and AltaIR Capital, that brings our total funding to over $120 million. Regulatory clarity is taking shape, institutions are leaning in, and #stablecoins are booming. The industry has gotten everything it could have asked for – and then some. Crypto finally has its shot at mainstream adoption. The industry is ready, the technology is ready and we believe #Payments are the unlock. 💡 What is Mesh and How it solves the crypto payments challenges? Mesh is building the #network that connects #wallets, #exchanges, Payment Service Providers (PSPs), and businesses as one cohesive operating system. Users can pay with any asset they hold – BTC, ETH, SOL – while merchants settle in the hashtag#stablecoin of their choice: PYUSD, RLUSD, USDC. It’s seamless, instant, and works everywhere. Just like it should. It’s the foundational infrastructure for a #borderless, open financial system. A system where payments aren’t confined by geography, banking hours, or asset types. One network that works across #TradFi and #crypto. Our technology already powers payments, deposits, and transfers across 300+ wallets, exchanges, and platforms. We reach over 400 million users in 100+ countries. With this capital, we’re expanding globally to making crypto payments as easy as using a credit card. Thank you to everyone on the Mesh team and all of our investors and advisors for their brilliance, hard work, and inspiration. This milestone would not have been possible without their continued support and trust in our vision. We look forward to entering this next phase of growth together. And we are hiring! DM me to build the future together. #Crypto #Payments #Stablecoins #Fundraise #Meshshow more

Korea's NHN KCP runs a 2-second stablecoin payment pilot... on Avalanche NHN KCP confirmed today that it is running a commercial-feasibility pilot for stablecoin-based payments linked to its Payco easy-payment service. The test covers online gift certificate purchases inside the Payco app and offline payments at the cafe and cafeteria in the company's Seoul headquarters, with about 700 employees participating. The system runs on a payments-focused mainnet built in cooperation with Avalanche (Avalanche🔺). NHN KCP says it logged a 2-second processing time from QR scan to approval, and built what it calls the industry's first stablecoin payment admin page so merchants can track blockchain settlement data in real time without crypto expertise. NHN KCP plans to share the pilot data with financial-sector partners and large merchants to push toward commercialization. Another Korean payment major is moving stablecoins from product to infrastructure.show more

🇺🇸💥 The CEO of Standard Chartered Bank, Bill Winters... —a $1 TRILLION institution— just said that “every transaction will eventually be settled on crypto.” This is GREAT. 🧠 Most people don’t realize that Standard Chartered already operates inside the same regulatory web that’s quietly aligning with #IOTA: 👉 The bank uses and enforces vLEIs (from Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)) across all its compliance and trade processes. 👉 It’s indirectly linked to TradeFlow Capital, which lists Zodia Custody as a digital-asset partner… and Zodia is backed by Standard Chartered itself. So when a Tier-1 bank of this size publicly states that the future of settlement is on-chain, it’s not just talk — it’s a sign that the #vLEI / #TWIN infrastructure that IOTA is building is about to meet the real world. 🌍⚡ #IOTA #GLEIF #vLEI #RWA #Zodia #TradeFlow #SUI #StandardChartered #Web3show more

💡 What is Kima and why does it matter... for the future of finance? In today’s fragmented world, banks, crypto, and digital assets operate in silos. Bridges are risky. Custodians slow things down. Compliance is messy. Kima changes that. Kima is a universal, decentralized settlement layer connecting TradFi & DeFi through atomic, compliant, and secure transactions. 🏦 From Bank to Blockchain: Move funds from SEPA or Visa directly into stablecoins like USDC or EURC, instantly, no intermediaries. 💱 Cross-Chain by Design: Swap and settle assets natively across Ethereum, Solana, Base & more, no bridges, no wrapping. 🔐 Compliance Built-In: KYT, AML, and regulatory alignment enforced at the protocol level. ⚙️ Battle-Tested Infrastructure: Trusted by banks and enterprises. Featured in pilots with the European Central Bank, Commercial Bank International, Bank of Israel, and partners like Mastercard. 🌍 One network. Infinite connectivity. Seamless settlement. That’s Kima.show more

JPMorgan's JPM Coin just landed in Argentina, and it... could be the start of a much bigger Latin American push. A group of Argentine banks including Banco CMF through its corporate unit QORP has begun piloting JPM Coin, JPMorgan's fiat-backed deposit token, for interbank settlement and reconciliation. The pilot is currently running without real money, using blockchain to record and reconcile transactions while traditional systems handle final settlement, but Banco CMF's CIO says the goal is to verify improvements in settlement times of up to 50%. Banco Galicia, BIND, and Banco Comafi are reportedly evaluating whether to join. The timing is notable. Argentina's central bank still bars banks from offering crypto to customers, but internal blockchain use is not prohibited, and that restriction is under active review. JPMorgan opened JPM Coin to institutional clients on the Base Layer 2 network in November 2025 and expanded to the Canton Network in January. The Argentine pilot is its first confirmed emerging market foothold. Latin America recorded $1.5 trillion in crypto transaction volume between 2022 and 2025. If Argentina proves out the model, JPMorgan has explicitly flagged Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico as the next logical targets.show more

There’s a reason the LimeWire name still hits people... instantly. If you were around in the early internet days, LimeWire was everywhere. Music discovery, file sharing, chaos, excitement. It shaped how a whole generation interacted with the web. That kind of brand memory doesn’t fade and LimeWire is proving it can be reused in a serious way. What’s different now is the foundation. LimeWire Network is the decentralized storage layer of LimeWire, built on BNB Chain. It is not a nostalgia project. It is infrastructure. Storage, transfers, and usage are happening on chain, designed to scale for real applications rather than demos. The growth backs that up. Looking at recent data on lmwrscan, LimeWire Network has already moved into tens of terabytes of stored data, with tens of thousands of uploads and consistent daily activity. Network usage keeps climbing, not spiking once and disappearing. That kind of curve usually shows real users, not incentive farming. And the economics are clear. The $LMWR token sits at the center of the system. Users pay in LMWR to use storage. Node operators earn LMWR for providing resources. Rewards and payments stay inside the ecosystem instead of leaking out to third parties. That loop matters. Most decentralized storage networks struggle because nobody knows they exist. LimeWire doesn’t have that problem. The brand alone opens doors, pulls attention, and lowers the friction for new users to try the product. When you combine that with live usage data and a functioning token economy, the upside starts to look asymmetric. Built on BNB Chain, LimeWire Network also gets the scalability needed if adoption keeps accelerating. That choice signals intent to grow, not just experiment. This feels like a rare case where nostalgia is not the product, it is the distribution layer. Curious how you see it. Are you watching LimeWire because of the brand comeback, the LimeWire Network growth, or the role of the LMWR token in the long run?show more

For a long time, staking usually meant one thing:... Lock your tokens and wait 🤷‍♂️ But some newer models are trying to connect staking with actual network activity. Wanchain 's xWAN system is an interesting example of that 👇 👉 Convert WAN into xWAN 👉 Stake xWAN 👉 Become part of the bridge ecosystem What caught my attention is that the idea isn't only about holding tokens. The bridge is being used every day as assets move between different chains, and staking is tied to that broader activity. As more users move funds across networks, infrastructure becomes increasingly important 🔥 Because today's crypto user rarely stays in one place: 👉 A transaction starts on one chain 👉 Continues on another 👉 Ends somewhere completely different Cross-chain movement is slowly becoming a normal part of crypto. And when that happens, the infrastructure behind those transfers matters more than ever. It's interesting to see staking evolving from a passive activity into something more connected to real network usage. Do you think staking models tied to actual ecosystem activity are the future? 🤔 👉show more

🚨 CRYPTO: BITGO PARTNERS WITH ZKSYNC TO BUILD TOKENIZED... DEPOSIT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BANKS Digital asset custody firm BitGo is integrating with ZKsync's permissioned blockchain to help banks issue and settle tokenized deposits within existing regulatory frameworks. The infrastructure, now in testing, aims to enable programmable payments and simplify blockchain adoption for traditional financial institutions. It combines BitGo's institutional custody with ZKsync's privacy-preserving layer-2 technology anchored to Ethereum. The partnership adds to ZKsync's growing push into banking infrastructure. Last week, five US regional banks (Huntington, First Horizon, M&T Bank, KeyCorp, Old National) selected ZKsync's Prividium stack for the Cari Network tokenized deposit platform, targeting a 2026 rollout.show more

Visa and Mastercard are moving deeper into stablecoin payments.... Banks are testing tokenized settlements. Fintech teams are building the next payment rails in real time. To some this feels like everyone else is already ahead. But the truth is the opposite. These signals show where global finance is heading. Multicurrency accounts, real time settlement, digital dollars as a default payment layer and seamless payments between crypto and fiat. Exactly the direction we have been building toward. In our recent update we highlighted that the 149 billion dollar neobank market is projected to grow to 5.5 trillion dollars by 2033. This transformation has only just begun and the strongest growth is still ahead. The Scallop App is in its final development phase and in closed beta testing with multicurrency fiat accounts, a full crypto wallet and instant crypto to fiat swap functions. Visa debit cards are on the way. We are not late. We are aligned with the market shift that is happening right now. What we are building is not a reaction. It is part of the foundation for the next era of digital banking. The timing is right. The ecosystem is forming. And Scallop is nearing the moment where it steps into the global finance arena.show more

We are thrilled to announce a BIG PARTNERSHIP ✨... 🔥 CryptoAutos is revolutionizing the #RWA Space and our token $CNCT is now part of it. You are now able to BUY and RENT cars using the $CNCT TOKEN all around the world 🌎 Welcome to CryptoAutos ✨ The fast, secure and seamless payments platform that connects car buyers with Crypto to a massive marketplace of automotive dealer partners across the globe. Crypto Autos is the home of bringing real-world assets on-chain. Allowing all users to buy, rent and invest in vehicles with crypto. RWAs are all over the news right now, and let’s face it, genuine utility and use case is lacking in Web3. By taking on the traditional slow-moving car market and giving users streamlined access, blockchain technology is already bettering the car industry's infrastructure. $AUTOS powers all this within the Crypto Autos ecosystem. Now we are adding this player into our non stop growing Ecosystem giving CNCT a big chance of being part of a Trillion $ Market. Time to grow ! ⚡️show more

Swapper Finance is building one of the cleanest onboarding... experiences, connecting users to crypto rails through familiar payment flows. By partnering with Swapper Finance, Pi Squared is extending OmniSet into a real-world distribution layer, where fiat onramps, card payments, and everyday users can connect directly to a unified liquidity & settlement fabric. This integration brings together two complementary approaches: Swapper focuses on accessibility and user experience at the edge, while Pi Squared handles settlement, liquidity orchestration, and correctness under the hood. As OmniSet expands, integrations like Swapper show how the infrastructure can disappear from the user’s perspective, while still operating at internet speed, with verifiable guarantees.show more

Excited to share that Ramp Stablecoin Accounts are now... in public beta. Ramp customers can now: 1. Hold stables on Ramp 2. Earn rewards on stable balances 3. Pay vendors & employees worldwide in USDC 4. Pay off Ramp Card + USD payments using stables 5. Use one system for both fiat + stable obligations with the same approvals, controls, and accounting We are bullish on the institutional adoption of stablecoins and to bring stable technology to Ramp customers.show more