stablecoins

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to minimize the volatility of the price of the stablecoin, relative to some "stable" asset or basket of assets. A stablecoin can be pegged to a cryptocurrency, fiat money, or to exchange-traded commodities.

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Who Needs Whom? Card Networks, Stablecoins and the Future of Payments

Who Needs Whom? Card Networks, Stablecoins and the Future of Payments
Who Needs Whom? Card Networks, Stablecoins and the Future of Payments
February 26, 2026  |  Blockchain

Here is the question nobody in polite payments circles wants to ask out loud: Do the card networks need stablecoins—or do stablecoins need the card...

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Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream
Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream
February 25, 2026  |  Investments

Tether Investments said it aims to promote the use of stablecoin payments by making a strategic investment in Whop, an internet market designed to help...

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Interoperability Is Missing Layer Connecting Blockchains to Merchant Systems
Interoperability Is Missing Layer Connecting Blockchains to Merchant Systems
February 25, 2026  |  Blockchain

Interoperability in crypto payments has long been discussed as a technical aspiration. Over the past several months, it has started to look more like a...

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Revolut Picked to Test Stablecoins in UK’s Regulatory Sandbox
Revolut Picked to Test Stablecoins in UK’s Regulatory Sandbox
February 25, 2026  |  Blockchain

Revolut is among four companies being tapped to test stablecoin use in the U.K. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Circle Bets on 2026 Growth After Stablecoin Transactions Skyrocket 247%
Circle Bets on 2026 Growth After Stablecoin Transactions Skyrocket 247%
February 25, 2026  |  Earnings

Could the world be shifting from an “information era” to a “value era” in which blockchain makes value transfer as native to the internet as...

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$154B in Illicit Crypto Flows Raises Stablecoin Questions
$154B in Illicit Crypto Flows Raises Stablecoin Questions
February 24, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

There’s an unavoidable paradox at the heart of stablecoins’ growth story. The tokenized assets promise to modernize money by making dollars programmable, portable and instantaneous,...

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Meta Hopes to Launch Stablecoin Payments Project This Year
Meta Hopes to Launch Stablecoin Payments Project This Year
February 24, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Meta is hoping to enter the stablecoin payment space sometime this year, CoinDesk reported Tuesday (Feb. 24), citing unnamed sources. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Payoneer Aims to Launch Stablecoin-Focused Digital Bank
Payoneer Aims to Launch Stablecoin-Focused Digital Bank
February 24, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Cross-border payment FinTech Payoneer applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open a digital bank, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 24)...

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Stripe Reaches $159B Valuation as Global Volume Hits $1.9 Trillion 
Stripe Reaches $159B Valuation as Global Volume Hits $1.9 Trillion 
February 24, 2026  |  Fintech Investments

Stripe was valued at $159 billion in a tender offer designed to provide liquidity to current and former employees, the programmable financial services company said...

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