Stablecoins
Digital currencies designed to hold a steady value, and how they’re used.
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Stablecoin Aid Payments Put More of Every Dollar in Families’ Hands
What happens when eight cents of every aid dollar stops disappearing into fees? A UN pilot just found out, and the answer could reshape how billions in aid reach families in crisis.
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Flutterwave’s Stablecoin Payments Get African Shops Paid in Minutes
What if getting paid didn’t mean waiting three days for your money to clear? For small business owners across Africa, that wait is quietly disappearing.
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World Money Just Made Sending Cash Abroad Free and Instant
Sending $200 home to family usually costs about $13 in fees. Here is the app now making that trip free, instant, and available in over 150 countries.
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Stablecoins Are Quietly Powering Kenya’s M-Pesa Remittances
What would you do with the $18 you don’t lose sending $200 home? Kenya’s M-Pesa app might soon let you find out.
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DDSC’s In-Store Pilot Brings Stablecoin Payments to UAE Shoppers
Forty-one million dollars. That is roughly how much money had already moved through a dirham-backed digital currency most shoppers in the UAE had never heard of, let alone used at a register. On September 9, that changed. DDSC stablecoin payments landed at the checkout counter of two of the country’s best-known retail chains, and for…
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Nubank’s Nu Global Stablecoin Account Turns Pesos Into Protected Dollars
Nubank just gave 140 million Latin American customers, and new US customers, an easy way to hold yield-bearing digital dollars and euros through its new Nu Global stablecoin account.
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Coinbase and Moov Bring Weekend-Proof Payments to Community Banks
"Funding that doesn’t stop for weekends or holidays, because the rail doesn’t close." Moov co-founder Wade Arnold said that on September 10, describing the shift now underway in community bank stablecoin payments. Coinbase and Moov announced a partnership that day embedding stablecoin technology directly into the payment systems already running at more than 1,000 community…
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Marqeta and BVNK Turn Stablecoins Into a Card You Can Actually Spend
Fifty-four percent of the people BVNK surveyed across fifteen countries say they’ve held a stablecoin in the past year, a striking number for something most people still picture as a crypto trading tool. Spending that digital dollar at the pharmacy or the corner store has been the hard part, since stablecoin debit cards that work…
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Plenti’s Digital Dollar Accounts Give Latin America’s Freelancers Room to Breathe
Camila designs websites for clients in the United States and Europe, but she lives in Medellín, Colombia, where every dollar she earns has to survive a trip through a shrinking peso. Exchange fees and inflation quietly chip away at what she gets paid before she ever spends a cent of it. Plenti digital dollar accounts…
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Kast’s Stablecoin Payroll Gets Freelancers Paid Instantly
Kast wants 1,000 to 5,000 active businesses on the platform by year’s end, on top of the million-plus people already using its consumer app. The pitch: settle contractor payments in minutes, not days, without touching crypto.