My strongest impression this year is that Web3 is becoming more "real". Technologies that once existed primarily within niche, developer-driven communities are now entering real-world scenarios and facing broader market and user validation. Whether in on-chain performance, cross-chain capabilities, or user experience, the gap compared to a few years ago has narrowed fundamentally. Many issues once considered "unstable" or "hard to use" are gradually being resolved, giving Web3 realistic conditions to scale ...

Mahe, Seychelles, Dec. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BitMart, a leading global digital asset trading platform, today announced the official launch of its digital payment solution, BitMart Pay, in the Vietnam market. This milestone marks an important step in BitMart’s expansion across Southeast Asia, with the goal of providing Vietnamese users with a safer, more efficient, and more transparent digital payment infrastructure. Vietnam has long been recognized as one of the world’s highest crypto adoption market ...

🚨 LATEST: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is in discussions to invest in crypto payments firm MoonPay as part of a funding round, per Bloomberg. https://t.co/V72sdLL7AD ...

🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today:🔸 CFTC seeks feedback on letting retail traders directly access derivatives clearing, part of push for stronger retail protections in derivatives markets.🔹 NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is in discussions to invest in crypto payments firm MoonPay as part of a funding round, per Bloomberg.🔸 White House AI and Crypto Czar says a markup for the CLARITY Act is coming in January.🔹 Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says an AI-driven market bubble co ...

Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, is in talks to invest in crypto payments firm MoonPay as part of a funding round, people familiar with the matter said https://t.co/vpWqgfO5bF ...

Personnel Change - Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham 将加入加密支付公司 MoonPay [1]

CZ on Crypto Payments, Next-Cycle Opportunities, Life Perspectives, and More：At Binance Blockchain Week 2025, Binance founder CZ said crypto payments remain unresolved, the DAT model works but depends on management, and Web3 success requires product focus and long-term thinking. He added that U.S. regulatory easing could unlock opportunities, mainstream adoption needs regulatory clarity and financial integration, crypto is improving access in developing countries, and his future focus will be education, phi ...

Ripple is in a completely different unique position compared to most of the additional blockchainbased companies out there in the world right now. That unique position is the fact that Ripple is absolutely dominating the blockchain space. They are dominating on every single level from institutional grade adoption to their stablecoin adoption. I have talked about over the last couple weeks on how completely different Ripple situation is compared to even Tether and it's night and day especially when we go bac ...

Core Viewpoint - Interactive Brokers is expanding its services to accept stablecoins, enhancing its payment capabilities and positioning itself in the evolving digital asset landscape [1][3]. Company Overview - Interactive Brokers has over 4 million clients globally and manages assets exceeding $750 billion [1]. - The company executes an average of 4,273,000 trades per day, making it one of the largest electronic brokers based on daily average revenue trades [1]. Stablecoins and Payment Innovations - Stablecoins are being redefined as a new form of payments and value transfer, particularly payment stablecoins backed by secure assets like US Treasuries [2]. - The GENIUS Act has legalized stablecoins as a form of payment, allowing for secure and low-cost transfers [2]. Partnership and Service Details - Interactive Brokers is partnering with ZeroHash, a digital asset infrastructure firm, to facilitate the acceptance of stablecoins [3]. - Currently, only USDC, issued by Circle, is permitted on the platform [3]. - The service allows for transactions with a minimum of $10, a maximum of $25,000 daily, and $100,000 monthly [3]. Current Offerings - Interactive Brokers currently provides limited cryptocurrency trading as part of its brokerage services [4].

🇦🇷 JUST IN: Argentina’s state oil company YPF is considering allowing customers to pay for fuel with cryptocurrencies, potentially becoming the country’s first petrol chain to accept crypto payments. ...