JUST IN: The Government of El Salvador denied plans to operate any crypto or stablecoin wallet. Government granted north-american Modveon a 5-year license to run "Sivar"—a new national payment app.

Payments giants are coming together on Celo... As of today, @minipay, the @Celo-native self-custodial stablecoin wallet, supports deposits with Link by @stripe. The integration means that MiniPay users (in the EU to begin with) can log in using Stripe’s one-click checkout, Link, and deposit using a standard card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Once the stables are in their wallet, users can use MiniPay's official card to spend said assets at a staggering 175 million merchants worldwide. Launched as recently as 2023, MiniPay has now seen more than 20M activations, and more than 600M transactions in over 70 countries. MiniPay’s traction is contribution directly to Celo’s growing prominence in the stablecoin sector, including the network’s role facilitating 25% of all @Tether $USDT transactions.

Samsung just put USDC inside Samsung Wallet >Coinbase safeguards every USDC through Prime Vault >⁠Solana and Sui power the transfers MILLIONS OF PHONES GET A STABLECOIN WALLET WITHOUT DOWNLOADING A SINGLE CRYPTO APP. THIS IS HOW THE NEXT WAVE ACTUALLY ARRIVES.

Web3 Morning Brief | Oct 1 Recent funding highlights from the past week 👇 🦁 @jeeves_inc — $110M Series C Led by CoinFund, with a16z, Coinbase Ventures, AllianceBernstein & more. Scaling stablecoin wallet, AI agents & instant global payouts. 🦅 Raven — Strategic round at $90M valuation Backed by Coinbase Ventures & CMCC Global. Expanding market-making across crypto + prediction markets. 🏗️ @hifiHQ — $37M Series A Led by Left Lane Capital. Building stablecoin + tokenized capital markets infrastructure (already processing $7B+ annual volume). 🏦 @limitedgrouphq — $18.5M Seed Led by Third Prime, North Island Ventures, The House Fund & Collab+Currency. Global corporate banking OS with stablecoin rails. 📱 @MeshWalletApp — $10M Private Gasless USDT wallet on TRON (pay fees in USDT, no TRX needed). Stablecoin & payments infrastructure continues to dominate capital flow. Not financial advice. DYOR.

Banks shouldn't have to KYC the same customer twice. "What BVNK does is we have an embedded program that allows you to embed stablecoin wallets into your platform. It allows us to send, receive, store, and convert stablecoins on your customer's behalf." "We can essentially ingest the KYC process that the bank has already done on a customer to quickly spin up a stablecoin wallet for them." @TylerSherwin, VP of Sales at @BVNKFinance

We’d like to welcome Cesto @cesto_co to Superteam Black Cesto lets you buy a themed basket of assets on Solana in one click. Think political trackers, AI stocks, Solana tokens, commodities. The tokens go straight to your wallet. They’re also letting people publish and run their own baskets. They’re targeting the $14T+ active portfolio management market. Jason (CEO) @jasonrodrigues & Viral (CTO) @viral_sangani lead the team. They were early at Celo and worked on MiniPay, Opera’s stablecoin wallet, which now has 15M+ activations. They came through the latest @colosseum cohort and have started plugging into wallets and other apps.

Tempo CBO @dwr predicts AI agents will soon have their own financial accounts, allowing them to negotiate bills, collect refunds, and manage money on your behalf: "In terms of the actual numbers of agentic transactions, those are still small. That’s across the board, not just stablecoins." "In the last 6 to 8 weeks, we’ve seen a lot of excitement around personal agents. Instinct, Meta’s Muse product, ChatGPT just released Dots. 6 months from now, virtually every consumer platform with some level of scale in AI is going to have some type of personal agent product, and those personal agents are going to be doing transactions for people." "There is a real opportunity for agents with wallets, because agents are not creatures of habit like humans, so they’re able to simultaneously use both cards and stablecoins." "There’s a lot of focus on how can I spend money, but there’s a version of the world where, how can I actually receive money? Receiving a refund, or negotiating your bill down and those funds coming back to a stablecoin wallet that your agent is managing. A lot of these personal agents with wallets are gonna start to resemble proto-financial accounts." @tempo