London-based payments company Merge has raised $9.5 million in a seed round, with investment from the likes of Coinbase Ventures and Alameda Research. Source link
If Mozilla’s more welcoming policy is emulated, and one hopes it is, it offers stablecoin issuers a window. But this window comes at a price. If stablecoins are ever going to compete in a meaningful way with the card networks, they need to dissociate themselves from proof-of-work. That may mean avoiding expansion to proof-of-work blockchains. …
Quick Take Stripe is adding support for payments in the USDC stablecoin on the Polygon blockchain. It will be available through Stripe Connect and Twitter will be the first company to test this service out. advertisement Financial services provider Stripe will support payments in the USDC stablecoin on the Polygon blockchain, according to an announcement …
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“If we can help make the Bitcoin network more accessible and usable we believe we can change the world,” he said. Leveraging Bitcoin as a cheap payments network is critical to that, he said, contrasting it with the “caviar-eating” history of boomer bank-issued credit cards that he said hasn’t innovated (beyond onboarding middlemen and their …
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Russia’s announcement contributed to a spike in BTC above $44,000, although cryptos were already tracking upside moves in equities earlier in the New York trading day. Still, traditional safe-haven assets, such as gold and the U.S. dollar, also rose on Thursday, suggesting some caution among global investors. Source link
Stripe’s platform will enable a new fiat-to-crypto on-ramp for the rapidly-growing exchange. Source link
As part of a massive product and brand overhaul, L2 Labs, the team behind ZKSwap, has announced the launch of the new comprehensive ZKSpace platform on December 20th. The platform hosts an upgraded Layer 2 AMM DEX ZK-Rollups ZKSwap v3.0, an NFT minting center and marketplace called ZKSea, and payment services, ZKSquare. The upgrade will …
“We have seen an aggressive sustained effort on ransomware the last few weeks from the administration that started even before the Suex designation,” Redbord, a former Treasury official, told CoinDesk in a statement. “We are rightfully seeing the most focus on hardening cyber defenses, and when it comes to crypto, we are seeing Treasury, DOJ, …
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advertisement Clients of El Salvador’s largest bank, Bancoagrícola, will now be able to pay down their loans and credit card bills in bitcoin. They can also now use the cryptocurrency to purchase goods and services from merchants connected to the bank’s payment gateway. Bancoagrícola, founded in 1955 and now owned by Grupo Bancolombia, has tapped …
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advertisement Substack, an online content platform through which writers can make money from subscriptions, has integrated bitcoin as a payment option. The option is currently available only “to a select group of crypto-focused publications,” a Substack spokesperson told The Block, adding: “We’re looking forward to exploring broader availability depending on feedback and demand.” The crypto-focused …
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