The stablecoin payments buildout has spent the year assembling rails: Visa Direct moving USDC prefunding into commercial production, Mastercard wiring BVNK stablecoin settlement into 130 countries, ...

How crypto-funded Visa cards load and convert, how Crypto.com and Coinbase cards compare on rewards and fees, and why each ...

Marqeta and Coinbase announced on October 16, 2026, a collaboration to enable stablecoin-backed card payments for Marqeta’s enterprise customers. By embedding Coinbase’s Base-based settlement into ...

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The arrangement removes the need for customers to transfer funds to bank accounts, preload payment cards or manually convert ...

Stripe, Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase are planning to form a consortium to issue a new stablecoin, according to people familiar with the matter, seeking to challenge the dominance of Circle and Tether ...

Visa and Mastercard now own part of the OUSD stablecoin. The deal is a hedge on cross-border fees, priced in equity and ...

Open Standard launched OUSD across four chains with backing from Coinbase, Stripe, Visa and Mastercard and more than $1B committed to liquidity.

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, and Shopify committed $1 billion to Open USD. Is the stablecoin a challenge to Tether, USDC, and RLUSD?

Coinbase is launching its first-ever branded credit card in partnership with American Express, set to roll out this fall. Called the Coinbase One Card, it will be available only to U.S. members of ...