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Tether Leads $5.2 Million Seed in Ark Labs to Bring Programmable Payments to Bitcoin

The funding backs Arkade, an off‑chain layer adding payment primitives—authorization, escrow, conditional spending, merchant holds—on Bitcoin.

USDCx Goes Live on Cardano With Circle xReserve Backing

Intuit Strikes Multi-Year Deal to Embed USDC Across TurboTax, QuickBooks as Circle Debuts USDCx on Stacks

Kraken Launches Krak Mastercard in UK and EU With 1% Cashback

Visa Pilots USDC and EURC Prefunding on Visa Direct for Cross-Border Payouts

PayPal Partners With Spark to Scale PYUSD Liquidity to $1 Billion on SparkLend

ECB Details Digital Euro Plan Focused on Outage Resilience, With ECB App and Offline Mode

Finastra Adds USDC to Bank Payments as Mastercard Launches Stablecoin Settlement in EEMEA