blockchain payments

Coinbase Acquires Utopia Labs Team to Accelerate Onchain Payments Roadmap
Coinbase Acquires Utopia Labs Team to Accelerate Onchain Payments Roadmap
November 13, 2024  |  Acquisitions

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has acquired the Utopia Labs team to accelerate its onchain payments roadmap within Coinbase Wallet. “The Utopia team has been on the ground floor building...

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Aeon Connects to BNB to Expand Crypto Payments in Southeast Asia
Aeon Connects to BNB to Expand Crypto Payments in Southeast Asia
November 11, 2024  |  Cryptocurrency

Payments protocol Aeon says it has launched cryptocurrency payments on the BNB chain. The company announced Monday (Nov. 11) that it has brought a streamlined...

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Swift Settles Tokenized Fund Subscriptions and Redemptions on Its Network
Swift Settles Tokenized Fund Subscriptions and Redemptions on Its Network
November 05, 2024  |  Payment Methods

Swift has completed a successful pilot for tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using its network. The project — completed in partnership with UBS Asset Management...

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This Week in Web3: Unlocking Blockchain’s Potential Within Payment Ecosystems
This Week in Web3: Unlocking Blockchain’s Potential Within Payment Ecosystems
October 02, 2024  |  Blockchain

Blockchain is growing into a global innovation that transcends its initial association with crypto. The auction house Christie’s, for example, recently announced that an upcoming...

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OwlTing Turns to Visa Direct to Power Cross-Border Payments
OwlTing Turns to Visa Direct to Power Cross-Border Payments
October 01, 2024  |  Cross Border Commerce

Blockchain FinTech OwlTing says it will begin employing Visa Direct to power real-time, cross-border payments. The agreement lets OwlTing potentially reach more than 8.5 billion endpoints in Visa’s payment...

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Capturing Crypto’s Product-Market Fit Within Cross-Border Payments
Capturing Crypto’s Product-Market Fit Within Cross-Border Payments
June 04, 2024  |  Cross-border Payments

In a landscape defined by unprecedented digitization and global connectivity, cross-border payments remain a paradox. That’s because, despite the size of the total addressable market...

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Stripe to Launch Support for Global Stablecoin Payments This Summer
Stripe to Launch Support for Global Stablecoin Payments This Summer
April 25, 2024  |  Blockchain

Stripe is bringing back crypto payments after stopping them in 2018. John Collison, co-founder of Stripe, said in a Thursday (April 25) post on X (formerly Twitter):...

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Messaging Platform Telegram Pivots to Crypto Payments for Ads 
Messaging Platform Telegram Pivots to Crypto Payments for Ads 
April 03, 2024  |  Cryptocurrency

Throughout nearly their entire history, cryptocurrencies have represented the archetypal innovation in search of a problem. And while they’ve succeeded as an unregulated store of value, as...

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Zeebu Marks $1 Billion in Web3 Settlement Transaction Volume
Zeebu Marks $1 Billion in Web3 Settlement Transaction Volume
March 11, 2024  |  Blockchain

Web3 payments platform Zeebu said it exceeded $1 billion in first quarter transaction volume. “In just seven months following the debut of its on-chain settlement platform, Zeebu...

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