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Visa is integrating stablecoin infrastructure from BVNK into its Visa Direct platform, expanding how its $1.7 trillion real-time payments network can move money globally. The partnership, announced Wednesday, allows businesses in select markets to pre-fund payments in stablecoins and send payouts directly to recipients’ digital wallets. Visa’s Direct network is widely used by businesses and platforms to send fast payments to individuals — think payroll, gig economy wages, or cross-border remittances. By using stablecoins, which are designed to maintain a fixed value and settle instantly, Visa aims to offer faster access to funds, especially outside of banking hours. “Stablecoins are…

Stakely, a popular blockchain infrastructure platform, has collaborated with FastLane, a blockchain-centered liquid staking entity. The partnership attempts to deliver stakers a relatively effective way to get more yield on the Monad blockchain with $shMON. This indicates the likely drawbacks of conventional staking methods. As Stakely revealed in its official X post, the integration of the liquidity staking capabilities of FastLane significantly boosts the user experience. Hence, this permits consumers to easily unlock the complete potential of the $MON tokens in their possession. 📢 Stakely x @0xFastLaneAt Stakely, we’re collaborating with FastLane to boost liquid staking on Monad with $shMON,…

Over the last month, shares of Jack Mallers’ Tether-supported public company Twenty One have lost a quarter of their value. Despite Mallers’ insistence that he’s different from all the other bitcoin (BTC) industry executives, his stock price has the same story as everyone else. Over the same time period, Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest BTC treasury company, has declined by an identical 25%. Peers in the BTC treasury sector are essentially in line with Saylor. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive Asset Management is down 31%, David Bailey’s Nakamoto is down 36%, Adam Back’s H100 Group is down 31%, Xin Jin’s Cango…

Democrats are turning their fire on the Securities and Exchange Commission after the agency quietly dropped its long-running lawsuit against Ripple and other companies. They argue that a retreat from crypto enforcement threatens investor protection and the credibility of U.S. markets. A sharply worded letter In a scathing letter to SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins, Democratic lawmakers accuse the Commission of abandoning meritorious crypto cases at precisely the moment when political pressure from the industry has intensified. The Ripple lawsuit, once emblematic of the SEC’s aggressive “regulation by enforcement” approach under former leadership, has become a symbol of what critics…

Spanish banking giant Bankinter has taken a minority stake in crypto exchange Bit2Me, joining a 30 million euro ($33 million) funding round involving Tether in August 2025. The investment adds another traditional bank to Bit2Me’s growing list of backers, which already includes major local financial institutions including BBVA, Unicaja and Cecabank. Bit2Me, headquartered in Madrid, is among the first firms registered under the EU’s new Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, allowing it to operate across the entire European bloc. The company has positioned itself as a business-to-business gateway for banks seeking compliant access to crypto markets. Bankinter said in a…

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has long been a magnet for traders seeking sky-high yields and stomach-turning risks. Speaking to TheStreet Roundtable, Nic Roberts-Huntley, founder and CEO of Blueprint, said that the sector is evolving beyond its speculative roots. He highlighted his firm’s approach to building a “sustainable business” that delivers attractive yet measured returns to users. “You either have those who just want to run maximum risk — pure risk capital, if it goes to zero, it is what it is,” Roberts-Huntley said. “That’s not what we do. We want to build a really big, sustainable business. And we…

This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “The dollar is always going to be the reserve currency. Anyway, for a long time.” — Jerome Powell When the price of oil suddenly quadrupled in 1973, Saudi Arabia was wholly unprepared for the billions of dollars that started flooding in. Strictly speaking, the money never actually made it “into” the Kingdom: Global buyers of Saudi oil sent their payments to accounts at Citibank and JPMorgan in New York — where the money sat idle because Saudi finance officials barely knew how to move it, let alone…

Two pieces of legislation signed by Kazakhstan’s head of state are going to relax rules for cryptocurrency transactions in the Central Asia nation. Besides updating banking regulations, the laws aim to promote the integration of new financial technologies and digital assets in the country’s economy. Kazakhstan’s leader approves laws regulating crypto turnover President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed Kazakhstan’s long-awaited laws “On Banks and Banking Activities” and “On Amendments and Supplements to Certain Legislative Acts on the Regulation and Development of the Financial Market, Communications, and Bankruptcy.” Prepared by the Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market, the acts…

In a significant move for mainstream cryptocurrency adoption, South Korean financial giant KB Kookmin Card has filed a groundbreaking patent application for a hybrid digital asset payment technology. This innovation, reported by Newsis in Seoul, South Korea, on April 10, 2025, aims to seamlessly merge blockchain-based digital assets with traditional credit card infrastructure. Consequently, this development could fundamentally reshape how consumers interact with both fiat and cryptocurrency for daily transactions. Decoding the Hybrid Digital Asset Payment Technology KB Kookmin Card’s proposed system introduces a novel bridge between decentralized finance and conventional banking. The core technology links a user’s existing blockchain…

Data released today by market analyst OKX Wallet revealed the top DeFi protocols by total fee revenues generated last year. The analysis identified top decentralized finance platforms leading in fee revenue creation in 2025, with various decentralized applications surging in revenue growth while transaction costs decreased drastically. Fee revenue generated through various DeFi trading activities in decentralized protocols is typically a crucial indicator showing decentralized protocols’ economic health and real-world utility. Such fees reveal revenue collected from customers for executing transactions, providing liquidity, or using various DeFi functions. Meteora just topped DeFi in total fees over the past year.What do…