Visa has quietly flipped a major switch in U.S. payments, allowing banks and fintech partners to settle directly in USDC instead of waiting on legacy rails. After processing more than $3.5 billion in stablecoin settlement volume during its pilot phase, the network is now opening access to select U.S. institutions, starting with Cross River Bank […]
Ripple has initiated the expansion of its U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD across multiple Ethereum layer-2 networks, including Optimism, Base, Ink, and Unichain, as part of a broader multichain push. This rollout begins with a test phase while awaiting regulatory approval from the New York Department of Financial Services for a public deployment next year. Leveraging […]
A quiet but noticeable accumulation trend has surfaced across the tokenized asset sector as large firms involved in real world asset infrastructure increase their holdings of RWA related governance tokens. Blockchain analytics platforms have identified multiple high value addresses linked to institutional custodians, tokenization service providers and major liquidity participants that have been steadily acquiring […]
