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Finance

Stripe Unveils Stablecoin Issuance Tool With Phantom’s CASH, Expands Into AI Commerce with OpenAI

With Open Issuance and AI payment standards, Stripe is doubling down on its bet on the rising role of blockchain and digital agents in payments.

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Markets

Fold Teaming With Stripe for Its Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card

The card will run on the Visa network and offers 2% in rewards, with potential for that to rise to as high as 3.5%.

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Policy

Stripe's Tempo Blockchain Is a 'Referendum on the Ghost of Libra,' Says Libra Co-Creator

Christian Catalini warns that corporate-led blockchains like Stripe’s Tempo and Circle’s Arc risk repeating the compromises that doomed Libra’s open vision.

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Finance

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison Explains Why Businesses Are Turning to Stablecoins

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison outlines the benefits businesses see in stablecoins, the day after Stripe and Paradigm launched 'Tempo.'

Patrick Collison, Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe

Finance

Stripe, Paradigm Unveil Tempo as Blockchain Race for High-Speed Stablecoin Payments Heats Up

The chain's stablecoin-first design aims to handle global payouts, microtransactions, remittances and AI agentic payments, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said.

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Finance

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)

Finance

MetaMask Joins Stablecoin Race With mUSD, Backed by M0 Protocol and Stripe's Bridge

MetaMask's digital dollar, confirmed on Thursday, combines Bridge's regulatory and reserve management and M0’s blockchain expertise.

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News Analysis

Why Circle and Stripe (And Many Others) Are Launching Their Own Blockchains

Firms aim to own their settlement rails to boost efficiency, compliance and revenue from digital asset payments, analysts said.

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Finance

Stripe Taps Paradigm’s Matt Huang to Lead New Blockchain Tempo: Fortune

Tempo is described as a high-performance, payments-focused layer 1 blockchain compatible with Ethereum.

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Finance

Stripe Building Payments Blockchain 'Tempo' With Paradigm: Fortune

The project is in stealth mode and may have a team of five, with plans to run code compatible with Ethereum.

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