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The People Building Crypto’s New Payment Layer
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People to discover · Stablecoin infrastructure The most revealing people in crypto payments are no longer trying to persuade consumers to “pay with crypto.
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Stellar Is Testing a New Middle Ground Between Public Ledgers and Private Payments
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Research / Privacy The crypto industry has spent years treating transparency and privacy as opposing choices. A recent set of experiments on Stellar is
Discoveries
Why U.S. Bank’s USBDC Pilot Is More Interesting Than Another Stablecoin Launch
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Payments & Stablecoins / Discovery On September 9, 2026, U.S. Bank said it had completed a live cross-border payment using USBDC, its proprietary dollar-backed
Trends
Stablecoins Are Becoming Payment Networks, Not Just Tokens
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Payments & Stablecoins · Discovery Stablecoin payments are entering a less visible but more consequential phase. The important question is no longer
Trends
x402 Is Turning the Web Request Into a Payment Rail
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The most interesting crypto payment product of 2026 may not look like a wallet, card or checkout page. It may look like an ordinary web request that briefly
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Privacy Is Becoming Personal Again
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The next wave of crypto privacy is leaving the bunker. Its real challenge is making control over personal information feel like an ordinary product choice.
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Bitcoin at $100K: What’s Next for the Next Wave
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Six figures changed the optics of Bitcoin. The more interesting question is what changed underneath: who is buying, how access works, and which parts of