#payments News & Analysis

Bank Trojan Hits Android Users, Targets Payment System Used by 150,000,000 People

XRP Price Prediction in March 2026: Ripple Targets Latin America, HYPE Could Break Out, but Is DeepSnitch AI a Sleeping Giant Ready to Rise?

XRP Ledger Reaches 7.7M Wallets as Transactions Surge

Nasdaq-listed Opera proposes 160M CELO deal to replace cash payments

Visa Crypto Labs rolls out command line tool for AI bot payments

Bitcoin Stuck At $74K As US Fed Sets the Stage For Explosive Move

Mastercard keeps tabs on fraud with new foundation model

Crypto payments gain traction in Australia even as banking troubles remain

Tally winds down, citing lack of viable market for DAO tooling

Crypto Payments Are Going Mainstream: Can Tourists Turn Into Daily Users In South Korea?

Stablecoin payments firm TransFi raises $19 million for global expansion

From Workflow Automation to Capability Closure: A Formal Framework for Safe and Revenue-Aware Customer Service AI

Visa’s Jack Forestell calls the agentic web the biggest payments opportunity in two decades

Charlie Lee on Litecoin, crypto cycles, and what still matters

Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, discusses the cryptocurrency's ongoing role in the payments ecosystem and shares insights on crypto market cycles. The interview covers long-term principles that remain relevant despite the industry's rapid evolution.

dtcpay Raises $10M Series A to Fund European Expansion and Stablecoin Payment Growth

dtcpay raised $10M in Series A funding led by Temasek-backed Vertex Ventures to expand into European markets and grow stablecoin payment services. The company secured a Luxembourg EMI license for regulated payment services across the EEA and already holds licenses in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, the US, and Canada.

XRP Network Activity Surges While Token Price Searches for Macro Bottom

A huge gap between network use and token value is the most important thing happening in XRP right now

Vitalik Buterin Argues Ethereum’s Biggest Use Case Is Data Availability

x402: How Messari Is Opening Its Data Layer to Autonomous Agents

Has Elon Musk Completely Abandoned Dogecoin? Here’s The Last Time He Tweeted About It

Ghana’s Crypto Push Begins As 11 Companies Enter SEC Sandbox

Ripple Just Shared Its Major Achievements As XRP Continues To Dominate Payments

Bitcoin Die-Hard Jack Dorsey Doesn't Like Stablecoins, But Block Will Use Them Anyway

Despite Jack Dorsey's well-known Bitcoin maximalist stance and criticism of stablecoins, his company Block is integrating stablecoin support into Cash App. This represents a pragmatic business decision that contradicts Dorsey's personal cryptocurrency philosophy.

Inside the Quest at Colossus to Replace Visa and Mastercard With KYC-Less Crypto Cards

Colossus is developing KYC-less crypto payment cards using an Ethereum layer-2 solution, aiming to compete with traditional payment processors Visa and Mastercard. The project is being developed by a small team of four with what they describe as a 'box of goodies' to challenge the incumbent payment infrastructure.

Ripple Expands Institutional Push as XRPL Progress Continues

Ripple continues its institutional expansion efforts while the XRP Ledger (XRPL) shows ongoing development progress. The monthly overview indicates growing enterprise adoption of Ripple's technology and services.