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Stripe's Bridge sees stablecoin volume quadruple as utility insulates from 'crypto winter'

The payments giant says Bridge, its stablecoin arm, saw its transaction volume sky-rocket through last year as stablecoin adoption is decoupling from crypto cycles.

Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison (Stripe)

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Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins initial approval of national bank trust charter

The U.S. banking license would allow Bridge to issue and manage stablecoins under direct federal oversight.

Bridge co-founder Zach Abrams and Sean Yu (Bridge)

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Swedish Buy Now, Pay Later Giant Klarna Rolling Out Stablecoin with Stripe's Bridge

Digital bank Klarna's stablecoin, issued by Stripe’s Bridge on top of the upcoming Tempo blockchain, is set to debut next year.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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BitcoinOS Raises $10M to Expand Institutional BTCFi Capabilities

Greenfield Capital led the round with backing from FalconX, Bitcoin Frontier Fund and DNA Fund to advance zero-knowledge-powered Bitcoin infrastructure

Photo of Edan Yago standing in front of  a sponsor board. (BitcoinOS, modified by CoinDesk)

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Stripe's Bridge Applies for National Bank Trust Charter to Expand Stablecoin Business

The license, if granted, would help the stablecoin infrastructure firm to "tokenize trillions of dollars," co-founder Zach Abrams said.

Bridge co-founder Zach Abrams and Sean Yu (Bridge)

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Fireblocks Dives Further Into Stablecoins With Intro of In-House Payments Network

The stablecoin network is designed to provide higher efficiency and lower risk than currently exists when providers use more fragmented and disperse systems.

Left to right: Fireblocks co-founders Pavel Berengoltz, Michael Shaulov and Idan Ofrat. (Fireblocks)

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Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys Bridge to Tackle Collateral Bottleneck of Using BTC in DeFi

Citrea deployed its Clementine Bridge on the Bitcoin testnet, using programming language BitVM2

A photo of Citrea's four co-creators (Citrea)

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Circle Upgrades Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol Promising Near-Instant USDC Settlements

CCTP V2 enables nearly instant USDC transfers between blockchains with new feature, reducing blockchain transaction times from minutes to seconds.

A CCTP demo at Circle’s Consensus 2023 booth in Austin, Texas (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Babylon Labs Brings New Momentum to Bitcoin ZK Tech Through Bridge to Cosmos Chains

Babylon, developer of the largest BTC staking protocol, is teaming up with Bitcoin developers Fiamma to build a trust-minimized bridge using BitVM2

Bridge (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin Gets a Decentralized Exchange as Cosmos Native Osmosis Activates Bridge

"I've always personally been pretty Bitcoin maxi," Osmosis co-founder Sunny Aggarwal said in an interview.

Osmosis Labs co-founder Sunny Aggarwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)