stablecoins are heating up fast
here are 5 major moves from the last two weeks ↓
1/ Mastercard x Stablecoins
mastercard announced a major expansion of its crypto efforts, leaning heavily into stablecoin settlement rails
global payments are moving onchain
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Today, we announced our end-to-end capabilities to support stablecoins, ensuring payments can be made or received using them - anytime, anywhere. Alongside proven leaders across Web3, finance and fintech, we’re empowering consumers and businesses to use stablecoins as easily as the money in their bank accounts. Here’s how:
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2/ Ledger Moves into Stablecoin Payments
ledger, the largest self-custody wallet company, is launching stablecoin payment integrations
self-custody + spendability = the killer combo
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3/ Chamath: Stablecoins Will Be Bigger Than Bitcoin
Chamath Palihapitiya came out swinging: "Stablecoins may become the single biggest product to come from crypto."
also might be a sign of the top...
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Deep Dive: A Primer on Stablecoins
Last year, Visa announced the launch of the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform, a new infrastructure designed to help banks issue and manage stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
This week, Stripe began testing a stablecoin pilot, aiming to help companies outside the U.S., and E.U. access U.S. dollars more easily through stablecoin payments.
And just today, Mastercard announced new features that allow consumers to spend stablecoins and enable merchants throughout the world to receive them.
Stablecoins weekly transaction volumes have already exceeded Visa’s, making it the second killer app in the crypto ecosystem, besides Bitcoin.
4/ Securitize x Mantle: Institutional Onchain Funds
Securitize and Mantle launched a tokenized institutional fund onchain, blending TradFi and DeFi like never before
institutions aren’t coming, they're already building here
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5/ $200T Stablecoin Opportunity?
Rob Hadick joined Bankless to explain why stablecoins could be a $200 trillion market, eating payments, savings, and credit markets worldwide
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LIVE NOW - Stablecoin Gold Rush: A $200 Trillion Opportunity
Stablecoins are no longer a niche crypto curiosity—they're a full-blown financial revolution.
In this episode, @HadickM, General Partner at @dragonfly_xyz, joins us to unpack the emerging stablecoin tech stack and why cross-border payments, savings, and financial infrastructure are being rebuilt from the ground up.
From @circle and @Tether_to to next-gen orchestration layers and stablecoin-native blockchains, we explore why this $200 trillion global opportunity is only 5% unlocked—and who stands to win the most.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
5:08 Why Stablecoins?
6:50 The Stablecoin Train
20:26 Stablecoin Network Effects
22:55 Stablecoin Payments: Who Actually Wins?
26:51 Orchestration Layers
41:53 Stablecoin Blockchains
52:53 Stablecoin Singularity
56:03 Traditional Banks
59:38 Non-USD Stablecoins
1:02:05 How Many Stablecoins?
1:05:03 Circle IPO
1:09:32 Closing & Disclaimers
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