payments


Markets

BankProv Launches Payments Network for Crypto Customers

The network will compete with the Silvergate Exchange Network and Signature’s Signet in the 24/7 real-time payments market.

BankProv CEO Dave Mansfield

Finance

Coinbase Commerce Adds Support for Dogecoin Payments

The memecoin is only the sixth crypto to be integrated with Coinbase’s e-commerce platform.

Dogecoin Joke Is Turning Serious In Latest Crypto Binge

Markets

Las Vegas Strip Club Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments Over the Lightning Network

The club is accepting bitcoin payments only for bottle service, but plans to expand transactions to food, admission and tips.

Las Vegas.

Markets

Visa Approves Australian Startup to Issue Debit Cards for Spending Bitcoin

The move by Visa to allow the issuance captures the growing interest in cryptocurrencies for Australia's economic market.

VISA credit card

Finance

Superfluid Raises $9M for a New Take on Streaming Payments

Multicoin Capital is betting the real-time payments platform can power DeFi and DAOs – and also subscriptions and salaries.

stream, streams, streaming payments

Markets

BNY Mellon Subsidiary Doubts Bitcoin as Payment Solution, Unlike Its Parent: Report

Despite its parent company's recent foray into the industry, the subsidiary is calling for caution on investing in assets like bitcoin.

BNY Mellon

Markets

Paraguay University to Accept Bitcoin, Ether, XRP in August

Students at the institution can pay for degrees and courses using cryptocurrencies when the fall term begins.

The campus of Universidad Americana in Asunción, capital of Paraguay.

Finance

MoonPay Takes ‘Sizable’ Stake in Crypto Banking Provider BCB Group

Terms of the deal between the two London-based firms were not disclosed.

MoonPay's Zeeshan Feroz (left) and BCB Group's Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie (right)

Finance

Sotheby’s to Accept Crypto for Rare 100-Carat Diamond in Upcoming Auction

“The most ancient and emblematic denominator of value can now, for the first time, be purchased using humanity’s newest universal currency.”

101.38 carat D Colour Flawless Diamond (4)

Markets

European Central Bank Can Better Protect Digital Payment Privacy, Exec Board Member Says

Privacy in the digital euro is a focal point for Europeans as are concerns of security and interoperability.

European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany