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Ripple launches USD-denominated stablecoin with global partners and enhanced compliance

The Payments Association

RLUSD is ideal for financial use cases and allows institutions to: Facilitate instant settlement of cross-border payments. RLUSD is available on both the XRP Ledger and Ethereum blockchains, offering flexibility and scalability for various financial use cases. Access liquidity for remittance and treasury operations.

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PayPal USD Expands to Arbitrum, Bringing Layer 2 Efficiency to Multi-Chain Development Stack

PayPal

Micropayment Viability : With transaction costs typically under one cent, PYUSD unlocks potential use cases including content micropayments, usage-based billing, and instant rewards distribution that would be economically unfeasible on other networks. San Jose, Calif.,

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Tokenized Deposits vs. Stablecoins: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters

Finovate

Unlike fiat held at a traditional financial institution, however, they are not FDIC-insured. This is useful when a firm wants to maintain liquidity to support lending and credit creation, and ensure that customer funds are protected in a regulated financial institution. Use cases also differ between stablecoins and tokenized deposits.

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GENIUS Act Clears the Way for Stablecoin-Powered Embedded Finance

Finextra

The GENIUS Act’s impact on embedded finance is that it makes all these use cases far more feasible at scale. Imagine an e-commerce marketplace enabling payments via a USD stablecoin under the hood: customers pay in dollars as usual, but on the backend, tokens are settled in seconds in the respective wallets.

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Tokenised Stocks: What They Are, What They Aren't, and Why They Matter

Finextra

In this comprehensive look, well explore the proliferation of tokenised stocks, their use cases and benefits, and clear up some common misconceptions. Use Cases and Benefits of Tokenised Stocks Okay, so if tokenised stocks are largely a new technical wrapper around the same old equities, why all the excitement?

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Signature Bank Launches Blockchain Real-Time Payments For Corporates

PYMNTS

Shay pointed to use cases for commercial real-time payments , including within the “wholesale energy distribution market and over-the-counter institutional trade and settlement activities.” Shay in a statement. In a statement, Signature Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph J. ”

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Beyond Bitcoin: Mainstream Acceptance Sparks Push For Everyday Cryptocurrency

PYMNTS

As cryptos go more mainstream, he said, and any number of use cases proliferate, “the killer app, so to speak, can hold crypto, or it can be spent in real time.”. The company also offers an FDIC-insured checking account to help spur crypto-friendly banking, Johnson noted. More Mainstream? .