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Search interest has cooled and aggregate stablecoin supply has slipped even as Visa and Stripe expand the payment and treasury rails that could define the sector's next leg.
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 6 min read 
GoBTC Pay gives merchants and wallets a live way to test instant BTC payments, but adoption depends on whether they trust the miner-run route.
Banks are pressing the Fed to review Kraken’s limited access, turning one crypto firm’s account into a test for the wider industry.
Zodia’s lira volumes show stablecoin demand follows payment friction, leaving Europe’s euro tokens with a user problem.
Network activity has broken above trend for the first time since mid-2024, but muted fees and weak prices show the market has yet to reward the surge.
The Payoneer acquisition points to token settlement moving inside regulated payment networks before it replaces them.
Katana CEO Matt Fisher says DeFi’s next wave may come from products that hide the protocols underneath.
Bitcoin’s inflation-hedge narrative faces a near-term test as hot PPI data pushes rate-cut hopes lower and risk assets come under pressure.
The company is tying RLUSD’s rapid growth to a broader push for autonomous payments, even as real-world demand remains early.
