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Finance

‘Pay’ Product Looks to Boost Stablecoin Payments on Solana

Can Solana Labs’ open-source payment plug-in pick up where the Bitcoin white paper left off?

Solana's Breakpoint came at the market's previous zenith (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance to Reinstate Payments From EU's SEPA Platform: Report

The rollout will start in Belgium and Bulgaria and expand throughout the bloc in coming weeks.

A selection of euro banknote of different denominations

Policy

Thai Authorities Plan to Regulate Crypto as Means of Payment

The Thai SEC has also proposed a set of guidelines to limit the use of digital assets for payments.

Bangkok, Thailand's capital. (Florian Wehde/Unsplash)

Finance

BCB Group Expands in Europe With Acquisition of 100-Year-Old German Bank

The German regulator is expected to approve the transaction by the end of February.

Hamburg, Germany

Finance

Payments Firm XanPool Raises $27M in Funding Round Led by Valar Ventures

XanPool plans to transform its network to become more like the traditional banking world’s SWIFT network, but compatible with cryptocurrency and e-wallets.

Peter Thiel Says Bitcoin Could Be a Chinese 'Financial Weapon'

Finance

Strike Users in US Can Now Get Paid in Bitcoin

Tested with professional athletes, the service is now widely available in 48 U.S. states.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers (Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

A16z Joins Forces With Deutsche Telekom in Staking CELO Tokens

A European telco and a U.S. VC giant walk into a proof-of-stake network…

Deutsche Telekom's headquarters, Bonn, Germany.

Markets

Mastercard Will Let Merchants Accept Payments in Crypto This Year

The payments giant plans to support digital currency transactions directly on network.

Mastercard

Policy

SEC's Clayton Says Payment Inefficiencies Are Boosting Bitcoin's Rise

Clayton sounded more bullish on bitcoin than he's been in years in his Thursday interview with CNBC.

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton

Markets

Ripple to Invest in Japan’s SBI Subsidiary MoneyTap

Ripple plans to invest in MoneyTap, the blockchain payments app birthed through a joint venture between the San Francisco-based firm and SBI Holdings.

Brad Garlinghouse Ripple