#Payments

Samsung SDS and Dunamu Explore Stablecoin Infrastructure

Samsung SDS, the IT services arm of Samsung Group, is discussing cooperation with Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, around stablecoin infrastructure, digital asset systems and AI...

Kraken Card Turns Exchange Balances Into Everyday Spending Power

Kraken introduced the Kraken Card for eligible users in the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area. The idea is straightforward: customers can spend crypto and cash balances...

Alchemy Pay Adds Michigan as U.S. Crypto Payment Licensing Expands

Alchemy Pay has secured a Money Transmitter License in Michigan. On its own, that sounds like a local regulatory update. For U.S. crypto payments, licenses like this form the...

NOWPayments and BlockSec Publish Crypto Payment Security Checklist

NOWPayments and BlockSec published a free security and technical compliance checklist for crypto payments. The document includes 25 controls across nine categories: key management...

Stablecoins Are Becoming Payment Infrastructure

Ripple launches a unified service for RLUSD issuance and redemption

Ripple has introduced Ripple Mint, a platform for institutional access to the RLUSD stablecoin. Organizations can use one interface or API to mint, redeem and manage digital...

Bitget Wallet and Mesh expand crypto payment routes

Bitget Wallet has formalized its partnership with payment network Mesh, extending an existing integration. The collaboration is intended to make it easier for users to move and...

Circle signs agreements with Kakao and Toss in South Korea

Circle has signed separate memoranda with Kakao Group and with Toss operator Viva Republica and Toss Bank. The parties plan to explore blockchain payment infrastructure, stablecoin...

MoonPay adds Discover cards for U.S. crypto purchases

MoonPay has started accepting Discover Network cards for digital asset purchases in the United States. Discover cardholders can now use a familiar payment method to acquire...

Ripple invests in Notabene to expand RLUSD payments

Notabene has announced a strategic investment from Ripple. The size of the transaction was not disclosed. The companies plan to add RLUSD to Notabene Flow and explore how payment...

PYUSD Moves Closer to Enterprise Payment Rails

PayPal’s stablecoin push is now being tied to Polygon’s Open Money Stack, giving businesses another route to use PYUSD in payment flows instead of treating it only as an exchange...

Mastercard Gives AI Agents a Way to Pay, and Picks Solana to Do It

Mastercard moved one step closer to letting software spend money on its own. In its latest update the payments giant extended Agent Pay to machines and connected it to Solana...