Payment Sector — Major Players Enter En Masse
1. Visa expands stablecoin settlement to five new networks including Polygon — card-organization giants continue broadening the stablecoin settlement foundation.
2. Meta starts paying some creators in USDC via Stripe — tech giants use stablecoins to settle payouts, adding another real-world payments scenario.
3. Western Union launches the Solana stablecoin USDPT and a stable payment card — the traditional cross-border remittance giant moves in directly.
4. State Street Bank plans to launch tokenized fund services before year-end; Hana Bank in South Korea and Solana test stablecoin payments — two-track advancement by both banking institutions and card organizations.
5. Stablecoin payments startup Velocity completes an A-round expansion at a $200 million valuation (Visa Ventures and Circle Ventures participate); IMF chief comments: stablecoins can reduce the cost of cross-border payments, but may impact monetary sovereignty in emerging markets.
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1. Visa expands stablecoin settlement to five new networks including Polygon — card-organization giants continue broadening the stablecoin settlement foundation.
2. Meta starts paying some creators in USDC via Stripe — tech giants use stablecoins to settle payouts, adding another real-world payments scenario.
3. Western Union launches the Solana stablecoin USDPT and a stable payment card — the traditional cross-border remittance giant moves in directly.
4. State Street Bank plans to launch tokenized fund services before year-end; Hana Bank in South Korea and Solana test stablecoin payments — two-track advancement by both banking institutions and card organizations.
5. Stablecoin payments startup Velocity completes an A-round expansion at a $200 million valuation (Visa Ventures and Circle Ventures participate); IMF chief comments: stablecoins can reduce the cost of cross-border payments, but may impact monetary sovereignty in emerging markets.
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