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Quick Take Visa has launched a new pilot allowing businesses to send payouts directly in stablecoins, starting with USDC. The pilot supports creators, freelancers, and gig workers, enabling near-instant cross-border payments to “compatible” stablecoin wallets.
Quick Take The Nasdaq-listed firm is acquiring $100 million worth of OOB tokens, the native token of Tether-backed crypto payment firm Oobit. Following the completion of the deal, Tether is expected to become the largest shareholder of VCI Global through its Oobit stake.
Quick Take Cypherpunk’s pivot from biotech to digital assets adds to a growing 2025 trend of small-cap firms adopting crypto-treasury strategies amid tight funding conditions. Winklevoss cast Zcash as a “privacy hedge” to bitcoin, part of a comeback narrative for privacy coins in 2025.
Quick Take U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs attracted $524 million worth of net inflows on Tuesday, despite BTC sliding around 3%. BlackRock’s IBIT added $224.2 million alone, marking the best day for the Bitcoin ETFs in more than a month.
Quick Take Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins unveiled plans for a new “token taxonomy” to clearly define which cryptocurrencies qualify as securities under the agency’s evolving digital asset framework in the months ahead. Circle said it is “exploring the possibility” of a native token for its Arc Layer 1 blockchain, a stablecoin-centric network that launched on public testnet last month.