198: Who gets the stablecoin interest?
Open USD launches with partner rewards, Citi plans stablecoin payments, Korea proposes token rules and Roughrider goes live through Fiserv.
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Circle Buys Tazapay: $400M for Fees, Not Float
On September 8, Circle agreed to buy Tazapay, a Singapore B2B cross-border payments company, for $400M in Circle stock, closing in 2027. Investors shrugged; CRCL fell 5.75% to $96.18 on the day. Why it matters: Every write-up says Circle bought the last mile. Wrong frame. Circle keeps 39 cents of every dollar USDC earns in interest and gives the rest to distributors, mostly Coinbase. It will keep every cent Tazapay charges in fees.
Japan Puts Its Settlement Layer on a Chain
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Circle Built a $73 Billion Dollar and Keeps a Quarter of a Cent
Circle reported $701 million in Q2 revenue this morning, took final approval from the OCC for its national trust bank charter, and set 16 September as the mainnet date for Arc, its own settlement chain, with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, and Mastercard among the founding validators.
The tokenized private credit opportunity
Our biggest report on the tokenized private credit opportunity yet.
who owns the agent economy?
On March 18, 2026, Stripe and Tempo co-released the Machine Payments Protocol, an open specification for machine-to-machine payments.
Santander let a bot spend real money
Santander and Mastercard executed Europe's first live AI-agent payment using two integrated systems: Mastercard's Agent Pay protocol and PayOS.
Hong Kong built the rails. Will the trains arrive?
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Polygon’s $250M payment pivot
Polygon spent eight years perfecting speed.
Kraken vs. PayPal vs. Revolut
The war to win cross-border payments.
Stripe's Endgame
How Stripe is building the world's first unified fiat-crypto payment stack at scale.
129: $2.3T just moved to stablecoin rails
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Coinbase Just Rewrote the Internet’s Payment Layer
Coinbase released the new standard for internet-native payments alongside AWS, Anthropic, Circle and NEAR.
125: Visa, PayPal, OpenAI kill the checkout
Mastercard brings stablecoins to 150M stores. SaaS is now a national security risk. Visa, Mastercard & PayPal roll out AI agent payment rails. BCG’s point of view on AI agents. And more.
Winning the Next Era of Payments
How your business can leverage onramps to convert more users, lower costs, and expand worldwide.
📝#109: Multi Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Nvidia's Project DIGITS. Blackrock's new stablecoin. State of Web3 adoption 2025. AI agent updates. Thailand accepts Bitcoin payment. Ubisoft's new Web3 game.
PayPal, EY, and Google Cloud Now Use Crypto for B2B Payments
The corporate payments landscape is changing—fast.
📝#95: Visa, EY & Google Go Crypto
Crypto.com sues the SEC. Visa's new tokenization platform. PayPal, EY, and Google Cloud are using crypto for B2B payments. Meta launches OpenAI Sora rival.
📝#87: Apple Opens to Crypto 💥
Apple to bring USDC payments to 1.4B iPhone users. AC Milan teams up with Bitpanda. MBL launches NFT marketplace. Lamborghini teams up with Animoca Brands in its biggest Web3 leap yet.
📝#82: Sports, Payments & Politics
Manchester United brings “digital” kit to 77M Gen Z Roblox users. Meanwhile, Coinbase & Stripe aim to bring payments to the masses.