Main Street Finance’s msUSD fell sharply below $1 after verification provider Accountable terminated its agreement with the protocol, exposing the payment and liquidity risks of verifier-dependent stablecoin designs.
OSL has announced an Australian financial-services licence covering non-cash payment products and custody services for wholesale clients.
GoMining has released an SDK and APIs for GoBTC Pay, giving merchants and wallet providers a route to integrate bitcoin checkout with on-chain settlement.
Alchemy has integrated AgentCard with Visa Intelligent Commerce, combining tokenized card payments, identity credentials and a crypto wallet for AI agents.
Five US financial regulators have proposed customer identification requirements for permitted payment stablecoin issuers, bringing issuer onboarding closer to bank standards.
Trace Finance has raised a $32 million Series A led by CoinFund to expand its regulated cross-border payments, FX and settlement infrastructure.
StraitsX has added Samsung Pay to its card-issuing stack, completing support for the three major mobile wallets used by its stablecoin-backed card programs.
State Street has introduced a government money market fund for stablecoin reserve managers, with Anchorage Digital and State Street Bank among its initial investors.
Ripple joined Flutterwave’s Series E as the companies outlined plans to add RLUSD settlement and XRP Ledger clearing to African payment flows.
Rain opened its native rewards layer to eligible card-program partners, bringing loyalty configuration, onchain points and redemption into its issuing stack.
ACI Worldwide joined the European Payments Initiative as a technical service provider and plans to add Wero to its orchestration platform.
India and France placed wider UPI acceptance on their bilateral agenda, with airport availability planned for Paris and Nice.