Stablecoins
Digital currencies designed to hold a steady value, and how they’re used.
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Orbi’s New Mastercard Lets Everyday Mexicans Spend Digital Dollars
What if the money you send home never lost a cent to a bad exchange rate? Mexico’s newest card is betting families will take that deal, dollar for dollar.
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Stripe’s Stablecoin Cards Are Jumping From 18 Countries to 100
What happens when the digital dollars sitting in your phone can finally pay for groceries, no detour required? For freelancers paid in crypto, that moment just got a lot closer.
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Samsung Just Turned 82 Million Phones Into a Cheaper Way to Send Money Home
Sending $250 home can cost $16 in fees before it ever lands. Samsung just built a cheaper lane into a phone 82 million people already carry.
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OKX Money Puts Dollar Savings in Reach for First-Time Users
Seven in ten of OKX Money’s first users have never touched crypto before. Here’s what they’re actually buying into, and the one number OKX won’t explain.
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Binance Pay Just Made Your Crypto Wallet Work at 10 Million Shops in Japan
Currency exchange counters have quietly taxed travelers for decades. One partnership at 10 million Japanese shops just gave tourists a way to skip that tax entirely.
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Jeeves’ Stablecoin Payments Just Cut Latin America’s Wire Wait to Minutes
What if a $10,000 payment lost $500 to fees and a sliding currency before it ever reached your account? For small businesses across Latin America, that’s not hypothetical. It’s Tuesday.
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Kora’s One Rail Turns a 14-Day Wire Wait Into Minutes
African merchants pay up to 8.8% to move money across borders, well above the global average. One new stablecoin rail is quietly undercutting that toll.
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HSBC’s RedCoin Could Put Stablecoins in 7 Million Pockets
Can a stablecoin beat a banking app at its own game? HSBC is betting on it, using an app seven million Hong Kong residents already have installed.
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El Salvador’s Sivar App Cuts Remittance Fees to $2
A government once famous for betting on bitcoin just launched something far more practical: a flat $2 fee for the billions of dollars Salvadoran families send home each year.
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Zelle’s Stablecoin Remittances Head to India by 2026
What if sending $500 home cost $40 less and arrived before dinner instead of next week? Zelle is betting its new stablecoin can pull that off for the India corridor.