Crypto is as crypto does. And crypto is, by all appearances, trying to do better. The European Union’s (EU) landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets Act (MiCA) framework is now live, and Web3 companies are already complying, a fact which industry observers believe could represent the start...
Ripple and Archax have extended their existing collaboration, aiming to bring hundreds of millions of dollars of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) onto the XRP Ledger (XRPL) over the coming year. This collaboration brings together Ripple’s enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions and Archax’s capabilities as a U.K. Financial Conduct Authority...
The state of crypto, just like the crypto market, remains promising – if volatile – in 2024. While many observers may have believed that the crypto space would simply disappear after a wild start to the 2020s that saw it enter the mainstream and then...
Cross-border payments innovations are turning global growth frictions into modern fictions. Or, at least, they are working on it. Ripple and Clear Junction announced Wednesday (June 5) that they partnered to bring together Clear Junction’s cross-border payments solutions and Ripple’s enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions....
May 26, 2023
While crypto’s future in the U.S. remains as shrouded as ever, it’s a different story elsewhere. “The world is truly fragmented now, you hear a different story [everywhere],” Dr. Yan Zhang, co-founder of Web3-native payment aggregator Pelago, told PYMNTS. But what remains the same, no matter the geography, is the need to effectively manage regulatory and operational risks, particularly as […]
May 18, 2023
Innovations that transform the world historically rest on revolutionary, but above all viable, use cases. Utility is instrumental to adoption, and as money movement becomes increasingly digitized, central bank digital currencies...
April 13, 2023
The black swan collapse of FTX in November 2022 severely rattled global confidence in crypto. It also increased the scrutiny of U.S. regulators, though no new laws impacting the industry...
February 09, 2023
The entire crypto industry should strive for the level of transparency seen in DeFi, Chainalysis Chief Product Officer Pratima Arora writes in the new PYMNTS eBook, “2023 Payments New Year’s...
June 13, 2024
Ripple and Archax have extended their existing collaboration, aiming to bring hundreds of millions of dollars of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) onto the XRP Ledger (XRPL) over the coming year. This collaboration brings together Ripple’s enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions and Archax’s capabilities as a U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)-regulated digital asset exchange, broker and custodian, the companies said […]
May 28, 2024
Instant settlement payment provider Coinflow Labs has raised $2.25 million in seed funding. The company said this funding round, announced Tuesday (May 28), will help it bolster its payments infrastructure...
May 28, 2024
Web3 infrastructure firm MoonPay has launched Web3 Tools, a platform for “building mainstream-ready digital experiences.” The platform, announced Tuesday (May 28), expands on MoonPay’s payments and minting infrastructure to offer...
April 09, 2024
Keytom, a neobank centered around digital assets, has announced its launch. The Dubai-based company said its goal is to introduce “a new era of financial management by organizing all digital...
