Francesco Campisi · 3 days ago Visa Brings On-Chain Credit to Real Payments: $20B Annual Stablecoin Volume Visa links its settlement data to on-chain credit to fund stablecoin card programs. Volume has hit $20B annualized, 15 times higher than a year ago. StablecoinsPaymentsDeFi
Giulia Ferrante · 14 days ago Italy Goes Contactless: 88% of POS Payments and What It Means for Crypto Italy's Banca d'Italia confirms 88% of card payments at POS are now contactless, 24% via mobile, with 16 billion-plus cashless transactions in 2025. What it… AdoptionPaymentsEurope
Giulia Ferrante · 16 days ago Revolut Launches EURR: Euro Goes On-Chain Inside the App Revolut has launched EURR, its first euro-pegged stablecoin, built into the app. Denmark, Poland, and Portugal go first, with wider EU rollout to follow in… StablecoinsEuropePayments
Francesco Campisi · 17 days ago Lisk Pivots from Blockchain to Fintech: Euro, Dollar and Stablecoin in One Balance Lisk, founded a decade ago as a blockchain, is shutting down its chain on October 31 and relaunching as a fintech platform where bank transfers and… AdoptionStablecoinsFintech
Giulia Ferrante · a month ago Banca d'Italia Tests USDC: Stablecoins Don't Always Beat Bank Transfers The Banca d'Italia sent real USDC across ten corridors and found costs from 0.30% to nearly 9%. The blockchain leg averaged just 0.4%. The last mile is the… StablecoinsPaymentsBanks
Hamza Ahmed · a month ago Mastercard Buys Into Stablecoins: the $1.8B BVNK Deal Reshaping Payments Mastercard acquired BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure firm, for up to $1.8 billion. It's the first major listed payment network to own this technology… AdoptionStablecoinsMastercard
Hamza Ahmed · a month ago ChatGPT Can Now Buy Things for You: MoonPay's PayBox Brings Crypto Payments Into AI Chat MoonPay's PayBox lets you tell ChatGPT or Claude to buy something and it executes the transaction with real money, without ever holding your wallet keys.… PaymentsAI
Francesco Campisi · a month ago AI Agent Wallets: Why Crypto Giants Are Building for Machines, Not You MetaMask, Coinbase, OKX, and BNB Chain all launched AI agent wallets in weeks. Why are crypto giants building rails for an economy that barely exists yet, and… AIAI AgentsPayments
Francesco Campisi · 3 months ago Digital Euro: ECB Pushes for Payment Sovereignty in 2029 The ECB targets a digital euro pilot in 2027 and possible issuance by 2029. Euro stablecoins hold under 1% of the global market, making the case for action… FintechEuropePayments
