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Latin American Crypto Exchange Ripio Unveils DeFi Credit Card With Visa
The card will allow users to access up to 30% of blocked assets in a liquidity pool.

Visa and Santander Selected by Brazil’s Central Bank for a Second Phase of CBDC Pilot
In May 2023, the BCB selected 14 participants for the first phase of the pilot.

TradFi Underestimates Bitcoin's Enormous Scale, Franklin Templeton CEO Says
Bitcoin processed $36.6 trillion in transactions last year, far more than payment network giants Mastercard and Visa combined.

Visa's Data Partner Allium Labs Raises $16.5M as Their New Findings Show Stablecoin Activity Is Back Up
Visa and Allium Labs released their latest findings on stablecoin activity which showed demand for stablecoins has picked back up in 2024 and there's a steady growth of monthly active stablecoin users.

Visa Is the 'Bridge' Between Payment and Blockchain Technologies: Head of Crypto
Cuy Sheffield, Vice President and Global Head of Crypto at Visa, joins CoinDesk Live at Consensus 2024 to discuss Visa's role as a bridge between payment services and blockchain technologies.

Who Needs an Off-Ramp? Ether.fi Plans Visa Card for Crypto Investors
The "Cash" Visa card from Ether.fi, the liquid restaking startup on Ethereum, might help crypto natives turn their decentralized finance investments into spending money.

What Visa’s ‘Organic’ Stablecoin Report Misses
A new metric co-developed by the payments giant says only 10% of stablecoin transactions in April were “real” or “organic.” But the methodology appears to leave out some key use cases.

Less Than 10% of Stablecoin Transaction Volume Coming from Real Users: Report
The stablecoin market supply currently stands at about $150 billion.

Why USDT Dominates Supply With Lower Transaction Volume
Visa launched a stablecoin dashboard that shows the outstanding supply of fiat-backed tokens at an all-time high, with Tether’s USDT dominating. While USDT dominates supply, when it comes to transaction volume, USDC takes the number one spot. Find out why "Crypto Is Macro Now" newsletter author, Noelle Acheson says this could be. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

Tokenization and Stablecoins Continue to Be TradFi's Top Interest in Crypto: Expert
Will Peck, Head of Digital Assets at WisdomTree, answers five questions from CoinDesk, including his crypto genesis story, features of the WisdomTree Prime Visa debit card and what traditional finance is looking for in crypto.

