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Velocity’s Series A now sits at $48M, with Visa, Circle and Ripple writing checks
A London payments startup just got Visa, Circle and Ripple to fund the same round, and none of them expect you to ever notice the product. Velocity pulled…
A $1.1 million card hack gutted a neobank’s AVICI token by 49%
The number that matters here isn’t $1.1 million. It’s $500,800, drained from 1,685 Avici users because of a contract version nobody had bothered to retire. That’s the piece…
Stripe reportedly wants to buy PayPal, and $53 billion wasn’t enough
PayPal turned down $60.50 a share in July. That offer valued the company at $53 billion, and it still wasn’t enough to close a deal. Stripe and private…
Stablecoin payments are going mainstream. So what happens at the moment the recipient needs local currency?
Visa’s Stablecoin Platform launched, and the story most people took away was that banks can finally touch stablecoins without building anything themselves. That’s true. It’s also the least…
