
Stablecoin payments hit $482B this year despite flat supply
Allium data shows stablecoin payment volume up 45% to $482 billion so far this year, even as token supply growth stalls and card networks add crypto rails.
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Allium data shows stablecoin payment volume up 45% to $482 billion so far this year, even as token supply growth stalls and card networks add crypto rails.

Polygon CEO Marc Boiron said buying Coinme would give the network direct control of customer relationships and revenue now captured by payment intermediaries.

Quantus Network will be integrated into Strongpoint, Project Eleven's institutional custody platform for post-quantum assets, with support targeted for Q1 2027.

Quantus Network joins Project Eleven's Strongpoint custody platform as a development partner, with integration support targeted for the first quarter of 2027.

The Glamsterdam upgrade has launched on Ethereum's Sepolia testnet, one of the last major rehearsals before it reaches the main network.

DogeOS has introduced a DeFi testnet for Dogecoin, but its applications currently rely on selected operators rather than the network's miners.

The Zano network was restarted from the block immediately before Hard Fork 6, discarding roughly a month of chain history after an exploit tied to Gateway Addresses.

The Zano network restarted its chain at the block height just before Hard Fork 6, undoing about a month of history after an exploit tied to Gateway Addresses.

New SEC staff guidance says a buyback announcement on a functional network isn't a promise that turns a token into a security, a reading one attorney says makes securities law look 'opt-in'.

Mantle reports 1,473 tokenized assets on its network, up from 71 at the start of the year, with distributed asset value near $476 million.

The network reports distributed asset value of about $476 million, up roughly 110% in 30 days, as tokenized equities and ETFs join its roster.

Socure's RiskOS platform will verify users and make fraud decisions as they convert fiat to USDC through applications built on Circle's Arc network.

The consensus change targeting 150-millisecond settlement is now live on both of Solana's public test networks, giving developers a pre-mainnet testing environment.

Quant will provide the interoperability and transaction layer for The Clearing House's On-Chain Money Initiative, with access expected in H1 2027.

The Singapore-based stablecoin payments firm says the funding will go toward expanding its product suite and merchant network.

The network behind ONE will move to Ethereum, urging users to exit contracts by Sept. 10.
Liquid Network disabled bridge nodes and paused operations after roughly 4,000 BTC left the federation wallet backing L-BTC.

Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery identified 96,000 outputs that clutter Bitcoin's unspent transaction database, increasing node costs.

Firelight's funding round backs expansion of its DeFi loss-recovery network from XRP to Bitcoin and Stellar.

Cronos validators paused the network after a $75M exploit on Tectonic, stranding borrowed funds.

Treasury's Aug. 24 action targets nearly 60 entities and expands authority over Iran's crypto use.

Affected networks isolated, with less than 0.01% of SAND supply at risk.

MANTRA's token fell 18% to $0.004126 before the blockchain stopped producing blocks after an exploit.

Kalshi partners with DoubleZero to offer trading firms low-latency access to sports and crypto order books.