#stablecoin market hits $300B, traditional FI's rush in

The dirty secret: stablecoin issuers earn the yield you should be getting. Let’s be real. Most “stablecoins” aren’t some magic on-chain invention. They’re just your dollars parked somewhere safe, earning someone else 4 to 5 percent. While you hold the token, they hold the collateral. In Treasuries. In money markets. Earning quietly. Every day. They keep it. You get nothing. That’s not innovation. That’s banking with better branding. The next wave flips that. Yield flows back to holders, not issuers. Transparency replaces trust. Stablecoins become savings, not IOUs. The real revolution isn’t new code. It’s new economics. And this time, the users win.

My biggest takeaways from Money 20/20: 1. Stablecoins have crossed the chasm. They are no longer "just a crypto thing." They are now the biggest thing in Fintech. 2. Agentic commerce is now on everyone's minds. Major players all were talking about how agents are going to start buying your flights (they still use that example) 3. Agent-to-Agent is the clear frontier. Its still sort of iykyk but the smartest people I talked to seemed way less interested in agents buying you things and more interested in what happens when the agents start moving money amongst themselves.

🥵 Stablecoin race heats up! 😱 Standard Chartered CEO - Bill Winters says all money will be settled on Blockchain eventually and all money will be digitised! 😱 JPMorganChase Morgan Chase CEO - Jamie Dimon softens stance and calls crypto and stablecoins “real” ! 🎆Let’s face it you need to be in the blockchain race, strategy is the same (you might get bored of me saying this) Build-buy-partner 💪🏽, there’s a lot to get through in the news last week! 💰Notable Fund raises: (read detailed articles below) Ripple raises $500M at $40B valuation; Devengo Closes €2 Million Round for A2A Payments; Swiss Bitcoin Treasury Company @Future Raises $30.8M; Saudi Payments Platform Stream Raises $4 Million Seed Round; Ventures Platform Fund Secures $64 Million for African Tech 🤝🏽Partnerships: Citi and Coinbase Partner; Napier AI Selected for #FCA AI Sandbox; Worldline Partners with Fipto on Stablecoin Payment Rails; Thunes and Ecobank Ghana PLC Group to Power Africa’s Instant Payments; PayPal and OpenAI partner; QNB Group and TransferMate Global Payments Partnership; Singapore’s Gulf Bank adopts Fireblocks for Digital Asset Custody 🏦Canadian Core Banking space is heating up 🔥with General Bank of Canada Adopts Thought Machine’s Vault Core platform and🔥Tangerine Bank Upgrades Core with Engine by Starling🔥 💵Acquisition: Coinbase advances talks on $2B acquisition of BVNK (remember Mastercard have gone after ZeroHash now, so that leaves Coinbase to go after BVNK) 💪🏽Super notable mention: Execution is the only way to win: Airwallex hit $1B revenue. Achieving their initial $500M in ARR in 9 years; the subsequent $500M was reached in just over one year.🚀🚀🚀 🛰️Finally don’t miss my final section with unmissable AI news: 🛰️Google’s AI leaving the Earth in 2027!!! Google’s Project Suncatcher to launch solar AI data centres in space. See below for more! Like. Subscribe. Share. Please. https://lnkd.in/efhx8BvN

Anchorage Digital Co-Founder and CEO Nathan McCauley is on stage now at Money20/20 discussing our landmark partnership with Western Union and Solana to launch USDPT. Leveraging Anchorage Digital Bank’s industry-leading stablecoin issuance platform and built on Solana, USDPT will power faster, cheaper, and more inclusive money movements globally. “Anchorage Digital Bank is purpose-built to issue stablecoins at scale. By combining forces with Western Union and building on Solana, we’re demonstrating how regulated stablecoins can power faster, cheaper, and more inclusive payments globally.” —Nathan McCauley, Co-founder & CEO, Anchorage Digital 

🚨 Money still moves like it’s 1995. Even the most advanced fintechs rely on slow, fragmented banking rails. Endless intermediaries, manual reconciliation, delayed settlements, and compliance headaches that make “instant payments” feel like science fiction. Meanwhile, blockchains promised real-time money movement… but left enterprises struggling to bridge that promise with regulatory reality. The Move: Modern Treasury just bought Beam. A stablecoin infrastructure startup for $40 million in stock. It’s more than an acquisition. It’s a statement: the future of payments isn’t crypto or banking. It’s both. By integrating Beam’s stablecoin tech, Modern Treasury is effectively rebuilding the financial backbone for global business. Faster, programmable, and natively digital, but still compliant and enterprise-ready. Why is this a big deal? Stablecoins are becoming core to the payments stack. This bridges the gap between traditional rails (ACH, SWIFT) and blockchain rails (USDC, tokenized cash). For CFOs, fintechs, and global businesses, it means fewer intermediaries, instant settlement, and visibility across every transaction without breaking compliance. The Big Takeaway: This is an infrastructure shift happening beneath global finance. Modern Treasury is betting that in five years, stablecoins will move billions daily, powering payrolls, settlements, and global commerce behind the scenes. ♻️ Share this if you find it insightful. 👉 To follow the latest on-chain finance events, sign up for the Venturebloxx newsletter. Matt Marcus Dimitri Dadiomov Sam A. and Dan Mottice #stablecoins #onchain #finance #payments

🚨 Money still moves like it’s 1995. Even the most advanced fintechs rely on slow, fragmented banking rails. Endless intermediaries, manual reconciliation, delayed settlements, and compliance headaches that make “instant payments” feel like science fiction. Meanwhile, blockchains promised real-time money movement… but left enterprises struggling to bridge that promise with regulatory reality. The Move: Modern Treasury just bought Beam. A stablecoin infrastructure startup for $40 million in stock. It’s more than an acquisition. It’s a statement: the future of payments isn’t crypto or banking. It’s both. By integrating Beam’s stablecoin tech, Modern Treasury is effectively rebuilding the financial backbone for global business. Faster, programmable, and natively digital, but still compliant and enterprise-ready. Why is this a big deal? Stablecoins are becoming core to the payments stack. This bridges the gap between traditional rails (ACH, SWIFT) and blockchain rails (USDC, tokenized cash). For CFOs, fintechs, and global businesses, it means fewer intermediaries, instant settlement, and visibility across every transaction without breaking compliance. The Big Takeaway: This is an infrastructure shift happening beneath global finance. Modern Treasury is betting that in five years, stablecoins will move billions daily, powering payrolls, settlements, and global commerce behind the scenes. ♻️ Share this if you find it insightful. 👉 To follow the latest on-chain finance events, sign up for the Venturebloxx newsletter. Matt Marcus Dimitri Dadiomov Sam A. and Dan Mottice #stablecoins #onchain #finance #payments

The stablecoin wars are here. The real winners may not be who you think. Key Question: How does the stablecoin battleground between fintechs, traditional banks, and crypto-native players affect the way this infrastructure gets used? Igor Hadziahmetovic, Investment Director and Web3 Tech Lead at Venionaire Capital AG, has answered it flawlessly. Date of recording: July, 2025. All links are in the comments.

Ripple has secured a $500 million strategic investment at a $40 billion valuation. So what is the key takeaway? In the last 24 months, Ripple deployed around $3.5 billion across six acquisitions, including: Hidden Road – prime brokerage GTreasury – treasury management Rail – stablecoin payments Standard Custody, Metaco, and Palisade – expanding custody and settlement capabilities 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻: - Payments rails and global trade clearing - Treasury and risk management for enterprise clients - Institutional custody and compliance 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗮𝗦 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲-𝘂𝗽𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: ⎆ The importance of engineering and product teams aligned to growth and compliance ⎆ Building robust, scalable infrastructure that supports global operations ⎆ Execution matters as much as ambition 💬 I’d love to hear from fintech teams scaling engineering and product functions: how are you designing your architecture and teams to meet growth and regulatory demands? #FinTech #SaaS #Engineering #DigitalAssets #ScaleUps #Payments https://lnkd.in/e8HkWPah

A bittersweet truth: no fintech founder faces the volume or velocity of adversity that crypto founders do. It’s underrated, but a crypto founder pivoting into any other industry is almost unfairly advantaged, they’ve been forged in a harder environment, and their likelihood of succeeding elsewhere is easily higher than someone native to that space.