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Articles tagged Stablecoins.
Mastercard is bringing card-style risk intelligence to stablecoin payments before settlement. The result is a new control point between a bank instruction and an irreversible on-chain transfer.
Coinbase can move stablecoin value globally, but recipients usually need local money. Thunes adds that last mile—without yet publishing a universal route, fee or launch date.
Circle has removed the fee from its slower USDC redemption lane, but near-instant cash-out normally costs 5 basis points unless a business qualifies for an exemption or credit.
x402 turns HTTP 402 Payment Required into a machine-readable checkout. It could let AI agents pay publishers per article, dataset or tool call—but payment is only one part of the creator-economy problem.
Midas has raised $50 million to build a faster liquidity layer for tokenized financial products. We separate the RWA story from issuer, custody and token risks.
Squads’ new funding is a bet that stablecoins become business banking infrastructure. We examine Altitude, the founders, investor network, live claims and dependencies.
Velocity’s $38 million Series A shows stablecoins moving into enterprise treasury software. We examine the founder transition, product evidence, investor mix and hidden dependencies.
Cycles wants companies to settle only the residual after obligations cancel out. The seed is credible; the hard part is building a multi-party network that works under stress.
Learn how stablecoins work in 2026, including fiat-backed, crypto-backed and algorithmic designs, their benefits, depeg and reserve risks, and current US, EU and Hong Kong regulation.
DeFi uses smart contracts for trading, lending, stablecoins, staking, derivatives and onchain asset management. Learn how it works in 2026, where decentralization stops and which risks matter.
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