Circle Wants USDC to Power Global Payments—Nium Gives It Access to 190 Countries
Circle has partnered with Nium to bring USDC settlement to 190 countries, connecting stablecoin liquidity with one of the world's largest cross-border payment networks.
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Circle has partnered with Nium to bring USDC settlement to 190 countries, connecting stablecoin liquidity with one of the world's largest cross-border payment networks.
Stable has launched StableEarn, a new treasury product that enables USDT holders to access institutional-grade yield through Morpho, Gauntlet, and Theo's real-world asset strategies.
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific FinTech Conference 2026, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou said tokenization, stablecoins, and AI are accelerating the convergence of traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure.
At Consensus 2026, Transak's Sami Start and Andy Werner argued that crypto's future may be invisible—powered by stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure quietly embedded into payments, banking, and everyday financial services.
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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino reaffirms commitment to making Keet, its peer-to-peer encrypted chat app, fully open-source.
MoonPay launches MoonAgents Card, enabling AI agents to spend stablecoins directly from onchain wallets anywhere Mastercard is accepted—bringing programmable finance into real-world commerce.
Meta has quietly reentered the stablecoin market, rolling out USDC payouts for creators in Colombia and the Philippines through the Solana Labs and Polygon Labs networks — four years after abandoning Libra.
Stables is expanding deeper into Asia’s stablecoin economy through a new partnership with eStable, adding institutional banking rails and local stablecoin issuance backed by USDT and Tether’s Hadron infrastructure.
Tether unveils its Mining Development Kit (MDK), an open framework giving Bitcoin miners unified control over hardware and reducing reliance on proprietary systems.