Stablecoin Volume Set a Record in June. USDC Moved 16x Its Supply.
June stablecoin volume hit a record $1.79 trillion while supply shrank. USDC turned over its float 16 times. USDT managed three.
June stablecoin volume hit a record $1.79 trillion while supply shrank. USDC turned over its float 16 times. USDT managed three.
The delivery giant operates in 40+ countries and processed $75 billion in merchant sales last year. It is now working with Stripe-backed blockchain Tempo to replace fragmented regional payment rails with stablecoin payouts. Visa, Mastercard, and UBS are also on board.
Payward just paid $600 million for a Hong Kong payments company that makes money moving stablecoins across borders. The firm was already profitable on $60 million in total funding.
At Consensus Miami, two of the biggest names in payments said the next wave of commerce will run on stablecoins and open protocols because traditional finance simply wasn’t built for machines.
X's Head of Product Nikita Bier says the feature has already moved markets. Canada gets a pilot trading button through Wealthsimple. X Money's public launch looms in the background.
Changpeng Zhao wrote most of his 457-page memoir inside a federal prison facility. He released it on April 8, 2026, with all proceeds going to charity. It is the most detailed first-person account of Binance's rise — and of the events that ended his tenure as CEO. The book is candid where candor is safe. Where it is not, it is carefully constructed. Both things are worth understanding.
Agentic.market lets autonomous AI agents discover and pay for services in stablecoins with zero API keys. 480,000 agents are already transacting across the underlying x402 network.
A blockchain is just a database that no single party controls and no single party can quietly rewrite. Strip away the buzzwords, and the whole thing comes down to that one idea.
Bitcoin dropped 4%, Ethereum dropped 4%. Ondo surged 9% and Canton gained 7%. Behind each move: Visa and Franklin Templeton. The total value of tokenized real-world assets crossed $12 billion in March 2026. Fifteen months ago it was $5 billion.
Visa is a global payments network that has quietly become one of crypto’s biggest TradFi backers via stablecoin settlement. This tag tracks Visa’s USDC settlement on Solana and Ethereum, its crypto-linked cards, tokenized-asset experiments, and its data on stablecoin payment volume. Coinliva covers the settlement expansion, the card programs, and Visa’s role in bringing stablecoins to everyday spending.