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All eyes on Coinbase after Robinhood's crypto revenue falls 47%
On this episode of Public Keys at the New York Stock Exchange, hosted by Jennifer Sanasie, Tether has proposed merging 21 Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy into a single publicly listed Bitcoin company spanning accumulation, payments, and mining. Earnings season is here: Robinhood just posted a 47% drop in crypto revenue alongside a 320% surge in events contracts. Dan Dolev, Senior Analyst covering FinTech and Payments at Mizuho, breaks down what those numbers mean and what he's watching when Coinbase reports this week. Latin America's largest Bitcoin treasury company, OranjeBTC, just launched an American Depositary Receipt giving US investors direct access. Chairman Josh Levine explains why Brazil is one of the world's most natural Bitcoin markets. Plus, Visa and WeFi are merging traditional banking and blockchain rails. WeFi co-founder Reeve Collins, who also co-founded Tether, explains what that means for the future of global payments.

Visa is ready for AI agents. So is Coinbase. They're building very different internets
The next trillion-dollar payments network won't have a checkout page. No card number, no CVV, no human at the keyboard. Just machines paying machines, thousands of times a second, for fractions of a cent.

Visa and Bridge plan stablecoin-linked card expansion to over 100 countries
Bridge has partnered with Lead Bank, a participant in Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, to help businesses and fintechs offer stablecoin-backed Visa cards.

Visa and Mastercard aren’t buying the stablecoin hype for everyday payments
Despite crypto’s promise of faster, cheaper transactions, the payments giants aren’t buying the stablecoin pitch, at least not in developed markets.

Crypto card spending hits $18 billion annualized as stablecoin use shifts to everyday payments
Artemis research shows crypto credit and debit card spending is now rivaling peer-to-peer stablecoin transfers, with Visa capturing most on-chain volume through early infrastructure partnerships.

Visa teams up with BVNK to launch stablecoin payouts
The new feature lets companies send money to digital wallets instantly, even outside banking hours.

Visa brings Circle's USDC settlement to U.S. banks following $3.5 billion stablecoin pilot
Initial participants include Cross River Bank and Lead Bank, which are settling with Visa in USDC over the Solana blockchain.

Visa Tests Stablecoin Payouts to Speed Payments for Creators, Gig Workers
New Visa Direct pilot lets businesses send dollar-backed stablecoins like USDC to users’ digital wallets for near-instant access to earnings.

Investment Bank Mizuho Says Visa Is Becoming the ‘Stablecoin of Stablecoins’
Visa’s growing stablecoin network positions it as the key infrastructure player in blockchain payments, while individual tokens risk becoming commoditized assets.

Visa Says It Wants to Build the Rails for Lending in ‘Onchain Finance,’ Its New Name for DeFi
The payments giant’s latest report rebrands decentralized finance as “onchain finance” and positions Visa as the data and custody layer connecting banks to a $670B stablecoin credit market.

