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Oracle Links Bank Payment Systems to Swift's Shared Ledger for Tokenised Deposits
Unveiled at Sibos in Miami, the integration connects banks' own deposit-token systems to cross-bank payments while keeping ISO 20022 processing in place.
Visa's Stablecoin Data Reset Cut Adjusted Volume While Transfer Counts Fell Under 2%
Expanding labelled addresses from about 15m to 600m stripped out high-value pass-through flows, but Visa's data do not show whether real payments changed.
Tetra Digital Group Brings Canadian-Dollar Stablecoin CADD to Solana
The 23 September rollout adds Solana to Ethereum, Base and Tempo. Tetra has already warned of copycat tokens and published the official mint address.
Solana Payment Channels Hit 1m Payments a Second in Tests, but Settlement Risk Remains
The headline benchmark measured only the payment gate, and unsettled vouchers can be lost on restart, leaving merchants carrying the gap until settlement.
Qivalis Partners With Numeris to Build Settlement Rails for Its Euro Stablecoin
The Amsterdam-based banking consortium behind Europe's largest bank-backed euro stablecoin project has signed a multi-year collaboration with payments-infrastructure firm Numeris, covering settlement, reconciliation and merchant acceptance ahead of a launch planned for the second half of 2026.
Thirty-Nine State Banking Groups Are Building Their Own Blockchain
The BankChain Alliance wants tokenized deposits and programmable payments for community banks by 2027 — with no technology partner named yet.
Lightning Finally Matters, and Nobody Is Paying Attention
Routed payment volume on the Lightning Network crossed $2B in March for the first time. The network is quietly achieving, in 2026, the use case the skeptics said was impossible in 2018.