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MoonPay, Iron, and the Stablecoin Endgame
In February 2025 Stripe acquired Bridge for $1.1B. A few months later, in March 2025, MoonPay acquired Iron, a German stablecoin infrastructure company, for a reported $100M+.
BNP Paribas called it an 'experiment'
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Wall Street's weekend just died
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Santander let a bot spend real money
Santander and Mastercard executed Europe's first live AI-agent payment using two integrated systems: Mastercard's Agent Pay protocol and PayOS.
168: NYSE, OKX, Kraken
Fidelity goes on-chain
Fidelity doesn't do crypto.
USDC prints $2.7B. Coinbase keeps 60%
It's one thing to build a $75B stablecoin network.
Meta's stablecoin comeback with Stripe
In 2021, U.S.
167: Stripe wants to eat PayPal alive
Apollo bought 9% of a DeFi protocol
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12 signals the ambiguity is over
Today we’re publishing our 2026 Outlook: The End of Crypto Ambiguity
Stripe doesn’t need bank
The OCC's conditional approval of Bridge National Trust marks a turning point for Stripe and the broader stablecoin industry.
From 100% to 2%
You know what’s more powerful than a 1,000-page regulation? A two-page FAQ.On February 19, the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets quietly dropped guidance that slashes the capital charge on stablecoins from 100% to 2% for broker-dealers. That’s the same haircut as money market funds. This makes stablecoins near-cash working capital and it might be the single most important regulatory shift for Wall Street in 2026.
166: Apollo bought 9% of a DeFi protocol
The first nation to run on USDC
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BlackRock just plugged into DeFi
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Citi just picked Solana over Ethereum
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Coinbase took Epstein's $3M in 2014
3.5 million pages of DOJ documents confirm what no compliance officer flagged in 2014: a convicted sex offender was funding Bitcoin’s development pipeline.