The World Bank puts the average cost of sending $200 across a border at 6.49%, clearing in 3 to 5 business days. On Solana that transfer confirms in under a second. End to end, including on and off-ramps, 1.5 to 4%. New report on what that changes for money transfer operators.

🇮🇳 INR. 🇻🇳 VND. 🇨🇳 CNY. 🇵🇭 PHP. 🇮🇩 IDR. Five currencies. More than 40% of the world’s population. Some of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing payment markets. Money moves across these markets every day for remittances, trade, payroll, marketplaces and global businesses. And the local rails are already here. InstaPay, VietQR, bank transfers, wallets and more move money at massive scale. The opportunity is connecting those rails to global dollars. Stablecoins can provide the 24/7 settlement layer. Local infrastructure handles the payout. With Credible, businesses can connect once and access USD → INR, VND, CNY, PHP and IDR through one payments stack. Global dollars in. Local money out. Asia is where global payment infrastructure is getting built for the next decade. That’s why we’re building the rails to make global money move more freely across Asia.

Many great stablecoin products in LATAM never mention stablecoins. ARQ, formerly DolarApp, sells a global account with a tighter spread. Borges of @FireblocksHQ: "you have no clue that a good part of the treasury might run stablecoins." Recap 👇

Announcing Laso Finance's largest agentic feature yet. The reloadable card with @agentcardhq. Now, agents have every financial tool. The new wave of founders will be digital. Connect your agent now.

We just shipped a new primitive within Pay[sh] called Payment Channels It let's agents consume 1000s of API services and settle payments in real time using stablecoins Up to 1M txns per second There is only one network delivering the infra to scale AI agent payments Solana

"Everybody wants access to the dollar right now." But when businesses and individuals need dollars across Africa, most banks don't hold enough to remit on demand, leading to week-long delays and fees as high as 4%. He spent years visiting Nigeria carrying bundles of cash because he couldn't open a bank account without a local verification number. To solve the problem, @OnTheHouz founded @ZyntaFinance Zynta offers regulated stablecoin off-ramps across 20 African countries that settle dollars into local currencies like naira, cedis, and rand. The platform has processed $300M+ in transactions with 100+ enterprises on its rails. Cairon's conversation with @_zacharyhughes: 1:24 - Cairon's career origin at IFDS 3:27 - From permanent staff to contractor 6:06 - Getting into crypto in 2018 7:38 - Building Zynta on @Solana 8:22 - The $300K transaction that changed everything 9:17 - Walking with bundles of cash in Nigeria 10:57 - Africa skipped landlines, now banks 14:40 - Why building the off-ramp is hard 15:32 - AVAF and central banker conversations 16:53 - Licenses across four global countries 17:54 - Four layers of payment infrastructure 22:54 - Stablecoins eating traditional bank revenue 24:08 - How Dollarization meets government resistance 25:13 - 99.6% of stablecoin volume is USD 28:46 - Regulated infrastructure across 20 African countries Episode 0059. Presented to you by @altitude

Traditional credit bureaus demand months of paper tax filings before approving a basic line of credit. That underwriting model completely excludes people who earn and move money across decentralized rails. SurfCash evaluates your onchain transaction velocity to extend credit directly to your wallet. You access liquidity without locking up excess collateral and spend it across 7 regions through local bank QR codes.

Agentic payments are thriving on Solana: - Solana now processes more x402 transactions than any other network - 5.4M agentic payments settled in a single week through @BlockRunAI - @moonpay launched PayBox - @tryramp customers can fund agent wallets More in the @x402 roundup:

Brazil launched Latin America’s first Bitcoin ETF, and stablecoin adoption there has recently ballooned. Daniel Cartolin of @sphere_labs on why years of grassroots demand have made Brazil the main LatAm market to watch. With @Paulapbpb on Range Fireside.

last week i posted that @surfcashx had processed $641,508.34. today the dashboard shows $753,851.30. that means the network processed $112,342.96 in roughly one week. 10.4k people have used the app for their daily expenses. the product is still simple: you hold dollars, you pay locally, and the merchant sees a normal local payment. and we are still rolling out region by region, so this number is the floor, not the ceiling

"When we had a payment gateway, every single checkout had its own unique deposit address that you can easily reconcile, that works across any chain, any EVM network." @TarunMangukiya, CEO at @koshmoney

recent solana ecosystem news: > @xplaceapp partnered with Credit Coop for card settlement > @perena published their V2 whitepaper about a programmatic structured credit framework for solana > @koshmoney launched USD & EUR accounts for freelancers > @incubator revealed that majority of the Cohort 5 applicants are building in defi or agentic finance > @Arcium processed over 5 mil encrypted computations

STABLECOINS ARE NOW ON RAMP. Your business operates 24/7, but your money only operates Mon-Fri, unavailable on evenings, weekends, & holidays. Now you can pay vendors faster across borders & move money in USDC or USDT with the approvals & accounting workflows you already use. --- Ramp Business Corporation is a fintech company and is not a bank or a digital asset custodian. Stablecoin custody is provided by Bridge Building Inc. and affiliates.

New episode of Mint Condition in partnership with @thestablecon: @CaddleMaya sits down with Harris Leow, Head of Product at @reapglobal , to explore how stablecoins are reshaping corporate cards, treasury management, and global payments. Listen to the full episode 👇

solana's first year at the WSOP was one to remember. players used solana for 6,176 tournament entries worth $22.9M. while crypto accounted for just 2.5% of all entries, it represented 5.3% of the total buy-in volume, with the average crypto entry nearly twice as large. more industries are finding out the power of solana.