Payments

David Chaum’s ecash in the 90s offers insights into balancing priorities in DeFi today

PayPal’s Jose Fernandez da Ponte explained why he’s not only focused on stablecoin market caps when growing PYUSD

The fox-themed wallet ups its game to compete with Coinbase, Phantom and other wallet rivals

“The goal with Universal is to make everything that we consider to be a crypto asset tradable with very deep liquidity on crypto rails,” Universal’s Austin Diamond explained to Blockworks

Stablecoins have emerged as crypto’s killer app, and the data shows that they still have room to run

The deal is one of the crypto sector’s recent, notable acquisitions involving crypto payments

The app was conceived as a global equivalent to Venmo that uses the Solana network and Paxos’ USDP stablecoin

Blue Sheets Simple-Earn offers a new route to fixed-rate lending on EVM chains

Architect Partners’ Eric Risley tells Blockworks this deal is “the most important M&A transaction to date for our industry”

Customers can pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, while US-based merchants are paid in dollars

Plus, the SEC’s decision to amend its complaint against Binance, dropping allegations that SOL is a security

This week’s biggest funding round saw Jump Trading, JPMorgan contribute to the round

Experiment involving Visa, Mastercard, JPMorgan and Citibank set to highlight tokenization benefits via shared ledger tech
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