Payments company Paxos has listed @cosmos ($ATOM) on its crypto brokerage platform after Cosmos Hub governance approved Proposal 1054. The community pool sent 300,740 $USDC under the community-funded proposal. The full story:

Payments has been the strongest fundraising narrative in crypto this year. 🥇Payments - $2.94B 🥈Prediction Markets - $2.90B 🥉Exchanges - $1.78B Payments is also the only category to pass 100 funding rounds in 2026.

Payments are simple; failed deliveries are hard. Yellow is built for the unhappy path. Our infrastructure uses escrow and dispute resolution to protect capital until conditions are fully met. We build for the failure modes.

Payments are emerging as a meaningful source of incremental U.S. Treasury demand from stablecoins. @trondao accounts for 71% of filtered stablecoin payment volume in our analysis, with ~$86B in stablecoin supply on the network. Much of that activity serves as a low-cost payment and dollar-storage rail, particularly in markets where access to traditional dollar banking is limited. When stablecoins replace local currency or informal dollar instruments rather than an existing U.S. money market fund, the Treasury demand they create is much more incremental. Stablecoins are increasingly global dollar infrastructure. Read the full report from @CitizensBank + Allium:

Payments no longer begin in one place. A scan at the counter. A card while travelling. An online checkout. An AI agent acting with permission. Different entry points, one shared job: move value from one side to the other. See how APC’s products and planned capabilities connect ↓

Payments may be local. The network doesn’t have to be 🌍 APC supports payment connectivity across: → Thailand → Vietnam → The Philippines → Indonesia → Nigeria → Brazil → Georgia → CIS Region One growing network for people, businesses, and AI agents.

Payments. Treasury. Settlement. Tokenized capital markets. All of it stalls when balances are visible to everyone, including your competition. Justus Delp of @MerkleScience talks about how privacy and confidential transfers can fix this and help blockchain scale.

Payments don't work when you need a separate asset to move your funds. The average fee on Tempo is <$0.001 and can be paid with any stablecoin, so teams can build payment flows without any surprises or extra costs. Learn more: