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.

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:

Payment Lane is one of the changes coming to BSC testnet with Jenner. It introduces reserved gas capacity for eligible payments while keeping existing fees and transaction ordering unchanged. Here’s the setup: 🔸 5% of block gas reserved by default. 🔸 General transactions cannot use unused reserved gas. 🔸 Eligible payments can compete for the rest of the block. 🔸 Token contracts require separate governance listing. The testnet rollout gives developers and block builders a place to check eligibility and block accounting before production. Read the full breakdown 👇

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.

Payment lands at 2am Your server is mid deploy The webhook gets nothing back Does the order just sit there unpaid No PayTheFly retries the webhook, up to 10 times You can also resend it manually Every call is signed, so verify it before you mark the order paid Make your handler idempotent and a repeat is harmless

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 ↓