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Crypto infrastructure startup named as having engaged in discussions with Chime about stablecoin wallet infrastructure; no confirmation or scope disclosed.
The same failure mode showed up twice in two days: Rain's Solana card contract, then Ajna's liquidation accounting. Avici's fix costs about $297 a user, and that number is now the floor its competitors get measured against.
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MoneyGram's new card in Colombia runs on Circle's USDC, with Rain issuing and Stellar settling. The company says its own MGUSD token comes next, and the dollar balance behind the card would then be MoneyGram's.
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Card volume hit $1.076bn in August while stablecoin supply slid 3.6 percent from its May peak to about $304bn. The decoupling is real, but at these magnitudes the two series barely touch, so ticket size is the better tell.
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Rain, Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle and Remitly have formed the Agentic Payments Alliance with about two dozen members, explicitly modelled on EMV. Plan to conform, not to define.
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The consumer fintech solicited end-to-end wallet proposals from blockchain vendors, as first reported by Bloomberg. No partner, no timeline and no named token yet.
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