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How Mastercard plans to settle card payments with stablecoins
Mastercard is testing stablecoin settlement with SoFiUSD to speed up card transaction clearing and help bridge traditional finance and blockchain.
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Mastercard Partners With Lobstercash and Crossmint to Enable AI Agent Payments
Mastercard partners with Lobstercash and Crossmint to enable AI agent payments, letting users authorize AI to transact using existing credit and debit cards. The post Mastercard Partners With Lobstercash and Crossmint to Enable AI Agent Payments appeared first on CoinGape.
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AI Agents Already Run a Fifth of DeFi, But Still Lose to Humans at Trading
A new report finds that agents have taken over the predictable corners of DeFi, but humans still clear the table when trades get complex.
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Circle rolls out USDC Bridge for native cross-chain stablecoin transfers
USDC Bridge is Circle’s official, native cross-chain bridging solution powered by its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol.
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Ethereum just had its busiest quarter ever, capping a three-year comeback
Ethereum recorded its highest quarterly activity levels in network history during Q1 2026, marking a significant milestone in the blockchain's recovery trajectory. The network processed over 400 million transactions during the three-month period, representing a 180% increase from the same quarter in 2023. Transaction fees totaled $2.8
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South Korea to pilot blockchain-based deposit tokens for government spending
South Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy is launching a new pilot to substitute government expense credit cards with deposit tokens.
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Bitcoin should prepare now, even if quantum is a 'lab experiment’: Adam Back
Back said the safest approach is to build optional upgrades that would allow Bitcoin to migrate to quantum-resistant cryptography once it's needed.
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CoreWeave signs $6B deal with Jane Street to provide AI compute power
Jane Street said it needs GPU-based computing power to keep its trading and research operations competitive amid growing adoption of AI.
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L&G brings £50B liquidity funds onchain via Calastone tokenized network
London-based Legal & General Asset Management is the latest global asset manager to expand distribution across blockchain networks and trading models.
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X rolls out smart cashtags in US, Canada in step toward ‘everything app’
Tat Thang, a partner at the prediction platform Polymarket, suggests X is building a Web3 equivalent of the Chinese WeChat Pay citing its recent moves to scrub crypto bots.
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XRP News: Ripple Pioneers Korea’s First Tokenized Government Bond Settlement
Ripple partners with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Korea’s “Big 3” life insurance companies. The companies will pioneer Korea’s first real-time tokenized government bond settlement via Ripple Custody, a major news for the XRP community, especially in South Korea. Ripple Custody is a bank-grade,
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Major European SIX Group stock exchanges feeding data to Chainlink
SIX Groups' two primary stock exchanges, SIX Swiss Exchange and BME Exchange, will now push their equities market data onchain.