Modi's UPI Goes Global — A Quiet Challenge to the Old Payments Order
India's PM Modi is pushing UPI beyond domestic borders, targeting cheaper remittances and positioning the platform to rival legacy cross-border payment infrastructure.…
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India's PM Modi is pushing UPI beyond domestic borders, targeting cheaper remittances and positioning the platform to rival legacy cross-border payment infrastructure.…
Visa is combining payment settlement data with blockchain lending tools to give fintechs and stablecoin card programs access to working capital — a structural shift in how card infrastructure gets financed.…
Compound opens a whitelisted, institutional-only USDC lending market backed by ETH, wstETH, WBTC, and cbBTC — and it was oversubscribed on day one.…
Robinhood takes equity stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com, routing event contracts through OG.com's CFTC-regulated infrastructure to expand its prediction markets business.…
Cronos reversed two hours of blockchain transactions to contain a $111 million DeFi exploit, but $9.19 million remains unrecovered and innocent users paid the price.…
Sweden's tax authority is pursuing six crypto miners for $56M in allegedly invalid tax breaks, sending a sharp warning to the global mining industry.…
Copper CEO Amar Kuchinad has departed as the crypto custody firm's search for a buyer stretches into its fourth month, compounding a valuation drop and investor confidence crisis.…
A bridge vulnerability in KelpDAO was exploited to drain $292M in rsETH, exposing the systemic dangers of single-verifier bridge architecture in DeFi.…
Visa is merging its VisaNet settlement data with onchain lending as stablecoin card payment volume on its network climbs nearly 200% year over year.…
Robinhood routes football event contracts to Crypto.com's CFTC-regulated exchange and takes stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com, valued at $5 billion.…
Robinhood takes an equity stake in Crypto.com in a multi-year deal that makes the exchange the infrastructure and clearing backbone of Robinhood's fastest-growing business.…
The BoJ is dumping Japanese Government Bonds at the fastest pace ever recorded, raising alarms about yen stability, rising yields, and seismic shifts in global capital.…