Banking giant Barclays explores blockchain platform for payments and tokenized deposits
Barclays, the British multinational banking giant, is exploring building a blockchain platform for payments and deposits, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing...
Payments
PayPal not pursuing sale despite report of Stripe interest
PayPal Holdings, the digital payments giant, is not currently engaged in acquisition discussions with Stripe or any other potential buyer,...
Meta, Coinbase, Kraken Accelerate Crypto Superapp Race Across Payments and Trading
Meta, Coinbase, and Kraken are racing to build financial superapps, blending stablecoin payments, 24/5 stock trading, and 24/7 tokenized derivatives...
Numo Launches Free Open-Source ‘Tap-to-Pay’ App for Bitcoin Merchants
Numo has released a hardware-free Android application that allows merchants to accept Bitcoin payments using a contactless “tap-to-pay” experience powered...
Numo Launches Bitcoin Tap-to-Pay App for Merchants, Powered by Cashu
Bitcoin payments are getting a contactless upgrade. Numo has launched a new tap-to-pay point-of-sale app that enables merchants to accept...
MoonPay launches non-custodial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents
MoonPay, a crypto payments firm, today unveiled a software layer enabling artificial intelligence systems to autonomously manage digital wallets and...
Fintech firm Payoneer applies to establish US national trust bank to enable stablecoin payments
Payoneer, a cross-border payments provider serving nearly two million small and medium-sized businesses, has applied to the Office of the...
RedotPay Eyes $1B U.S. IPO as Stablecoin Payments Expand
Stablecoin payments firm RedotPay is reportedly considering a U.S. stock market listing that could raise up to $1 billion. The...
Ripple’s Secret Banking Play: $4B in Acquisitions, OCC Charter, and a Feb 26 ETF Deadline
Ripple is no longer just a payments company. Through a series of aggressive acquisitions in 2025 totaling roughly $4 billion,...
XRP Ledger Gets x402 Facilitator For AI Agent Payments: Why This Is Bullish
t54.ai has launched an x402 “facilitator” on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a payments relay that lets AI agents pay for...
Miles Suter: Cash App Now Offers Best Bitcoin Pricing, Higher Withdrawals for Users
Cash App, the popular digital wallet and payments app, announced a series of changes to its Bitcoin offering, including a...
XRP Ledger activates permissioned DEX for regulated institutions on mainnet
The XRP Ledger (XRPL), an open-source blockchain built for fast payments and tokenized finance, has activated XLS-81, a “Permissioned DEX”...
Elon Musk says X Money will launch external beta in 1–2 months
X Money, the payments system built into Elon Musk’s social media platform X, is preparing for an external beta rollout...
Europe Pushes for Payment Sovereignty to Counter Potential US Intervention
Private banking groups are warning about the growing EU dependence on foreign payment companies. Martina Weimert, chief executive of the...
Ripple RLUSD Powers Bitso’s XRP Payments, Unlocking Near-Instant US-LATAM Flows
Key Takeaways:The solution → Ripple Payments powered by RLUSD and XRP➡️ Near-instant U.S.–LATAM flows➡️ Regulated, USD-denominated… pic.twitter.com/JubUNlChzaRipple Payments Targets Slow...
