Finextra

JUNE 23, 2025

For the US government, the play here is pretty simple: reaffirm the U.S. dollar’s dominance in the digital era – ensuring that as money goes blockchain-shaped, it’s American-regulated stablecoins that people are using, not unregulated offshore tokens or rival nations’ digital currencies. So, what exactly is JPMD?

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Payments Dive

JULY 17, 2025

Mastercard Chief Product Officer Jorn Lambert contended that 90% of the current stablecoin volume is for trading in other cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin. “It It is not currently used as a general purpose payment tool,” Lambert said on the Monday call with analysts.

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Fintech Weekly

JULY 15, 2025

Related Articles Business Astra Fintech Acquires Dexlab to Expand Solana-Based Token Infrastructure Astra Fintech acquires Solana-native Dexlab for $10 million, aiming to strengthen programmable token infrastructure and fintech use cases in Asia. Because of its distributed ledger system, Blockchain. Innovative demos.

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Fintech Weekly

JULY 17, 2025

If your business is built around digital commodities (think Bitcoin or similar assets) you’ll register with the CFTC. You’ll need to take a hard look at your assets, your structure, and your use cases. Because of its distributed ledger system, Blockchain. Because of its distributed ledger system, Blockchain.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 15, 2025

The popularity of cryptocurrency has overshadowed blockchain to the point that a misconception has been formed: blockchain’s sole purpose is to facilitate cryptocurrencies. While this is certainly one blockchain use case, it has many more that are not being properly utilised due to the public nature of mainstream blockchains.

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Fintech Weekly

JULY 13, 2025

Some of the key use cases in customer service are: Virtual financial advisor Customer profiling Realtime fraud monitoring Executing routine tasks Reporting Customer Profiling, which is the first step to knowing a customer, is another key use case that drives customer engagement. 50%+ from financial institutions.

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Payments Dive

JULY 14, 2025

has fallen behind, Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger told the Senate panel. “[W]e Digital assets and blockchain technology are revolutionizing financial services, supply chains, and digital identity. They commonly use U.S. Countries like the U.K.,

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Payments Dive

JULY 21, 2025

Days after he took office, Trump issued an executive order seeking to “support the responsible growth and use of digital assets, blockchain technology, and related technologies across all sectors of the economy.”

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The technology behind bitcoin has almost endless use cases.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

5), bitcoin followed suit, rising to over $15,000, signaling a continued confidence in the cryptocurrency. Investors have continued to accumulate bitcoin throughout the year, specifically during the March and September price crashes, according to CoinDesk, signaling long-term confidence in the digital coin. The stock hit $15,017.05

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Amid the rallies that have marked all manner of asset classes in 2020 – where things hummed along to start the year, turned sour in the spring and then rebounded (nay, roared) into the waning months, bitcoin stands out. But now, at least some asset managers have been embracing bitcoin as a hedge against currencies and gold.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

As blockchain tech gains commercial traction, a growing number of companies want to use it to reimagine the capital markets infrastructure that powers the trade of stocks, bonds, and other securities. The chart above shows the core blockchain tech being used by projects and corporates working on DLT applications for capital markets.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Scan the headlines over the past few weeks and cryptos, well beyond the marquee bitcoin, are making inroads into mainstream consumer and business activities. PayPal is opening its network to allow consumers to shop using cryptocurrency. Square bought $50 million of bitcoin. The mechanics and clumsiness of it all have not helped.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Bitcoin gets all the headlines. But step beyond bitcoin and enter the world of cryptocurrencies approaching mainstream acceptance. At present, he said, a number of factors have inhibited the adoption of bitcoin as a transactional currency, including the fact that it’s expensive and can be very slow.

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Fintech Review

AUGUST 27, 2024

Blockchain technology has revolutionised numerous industries by providing decentralised, secure, and transparent systems. However, one of the significant challenges it faces is interoperability between different blockchain networks. However, these networks often operate in isolation, limiting the potential of blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money. The end of this month, Oct.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Not all that long ago, blockchain and bitcoin were inseparable – shorthand for the Wild West of cryptocurrencies and speculation. One firm, tZERO Group , is betting that blockchain can help disrupt capital markets themselves. Blockchain can help automate compliance efforts and settle trades with speed. The Use Cases .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Ant Financial rolled out a blockchain platform called OpenChain, which lets small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and developers harness its proprietary blockchain technologies, according to an announcement. The technology offers many modules to developers that they can use in different mixes to create trust in team efforts.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 25, 2019

Blockchain made plenty of headlines last year. We’ve seen stories on everything from price volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies to increased adoption of blockchain tech by some of the world’s largest corporations. GET the 47-page blockchain TRENDS report. Bitcoin mining. Fiat-crypto exchanges. Stablecoins.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Blockchain. As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Huge corporations — like Walmart and Pfizer — have completed successful blockchain pilots. Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Blockchain companies raised more venture capital and private equity funding in H1’21 than any full year in history. download our best of blockchain research. download our best of blockchain research. But blockchain’s potential extends well beyond crypto and NFTs. First name. Company name. Phone number.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

JPM Coin is not meant for consumer payments, but rather is a specific technology for a specific use case that the bank controls. Its value comes not from JPM Coin's appeal, but from JPMorgan's titanic wholesale payments business.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

Blockchain has long been in the process of being divorced – operationally as well as conceptually – from its crypto connection. The hope has been that as blockchain moves beyond bitcoin , the decentralized way of moving data, assets and communications would find a wide berth in business. I say, ‘Show me the use case.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Much hype and hope surrounds the adoption of cryptocurrencies — bitcoin among them as the marquee name in the space, of course — beyond the Wild West of speculative trading that exists now. Favor has met with disfavor, and bitcoin now trades at $3,990 — a bit above nadirs around $3,400 and well off highs that neared $20,000.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he sees “no unique value” in bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, calling it a “delusion, basically,” according to a report from CNBC. Bitcoin has struggled with value after reaching a high of almost $20,000 at the end of 2017. It attracts charlatans,” Buffett said. “If

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The Fintech Times

MAY 1, 2024

However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. We will: Explore the biggest innovations over the past year in the cryptocurrency, stablecoin, blockchain and digital assets spheres.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Blockchain seemed to be stuck in pilot phase in 2017, but in 2018, the financial services industry finally saw a stronger flow of real-world, working blockchain applications — many of which targeted pain points in B2B payments, including the time and lack of transparency in cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Crypto boosters have spent the better part of the past decade promoting the idea that great fiat-currency disruptions are coming care of blockchain and literally hundreds of thousands of variations of cryptocurrency circulating in the world today. Even bitcoin is accepted by only a relative handful of digital retailers.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 22, 2024

Technology The decentralised network connected through a network of computers or nodes underlies blockchain technology, synonymous with cryptocurrencies. Blockchain protocols are the guidelines or rulebooks that determine how a blockchain works. They want to be the first to use the product. Constance W.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

“We believe that developing standards and open specifications, as well as collaborating on implementations of them, is critical to removing customer blockers and accelerating blockchain as a mainstream technology. This means you can now deploy the IBM Blockchain Platform on the infrastructure of your choosing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Monerium, a startup based in Iceland that has a European Economic Area (EEA) e-money license, has teamed up with Algorand, a blockchain with a highly scalable consensus algorithm, according to a report Tuesday (Jan. Monerium stores fiat currency deposits for clients and releases them in a digital form on a blockchain. 21) by Coindesk.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are continuing to attract attention from authorities for all the wrong reasons. Among the issues plaguing bitcoin and its peers is the fact that unlike credit card transactions, cryptocurrency payments are almost immediately irreversible. Lagging Consumer Use Cases. A Slew of Problems.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

BitPay, a leading Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment service, said that it will soon allow invoices to be paid from any Bitcoin wallet or crypto exchange, according to a report Tuesday (Feb. BitPay’s customers want to support all the Bitcoin wallets, just like they want to support all cryptocurrencies for payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Bit by bit — but more than bitcoin by bitcoin — cryptos are inching into the mainstream, for both consumer and commercial applications. There’s still fiat involved in most cases — but, then, after all, seismic shifts in payments have got to start somewhere. From Wild West … to new frontier in commerce?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This year’s blockchain craze has pushed a huge amount of new money into cryptocurrencies, private blockchain projects, and companies holding initial coin offerings (ICOs). Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review. Track the blockchain companies in this brief and many more on our platform. Track Blockchain Startups.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

The blockchain for the Marshallese sovereign (SOV) digital currency will be developed with Algorand technology, according to an announcement. Algorand created a permissionless, open source and pure proof-of-stake blockchain technology. The supply of SOV will be set to increase at 4 percent yearly to stop inflation from occurring.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Huawei has created a technology based on the blockchain to help the Beijing government more effectively monitor and supervise citizen information, CoinDesk reported. Moreover, the cloud services arm of Huawei has fueled the project with blockchain innovations like distributed ledgers.

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