Stablecoins covers the instruments themselves and the rules being written around them. Fintechbits follows issuance and reserve disclosure, the GENIUS Act and MiCA regimes, bank and card-network experiments using stablecoins for settlement, and the payment companies putting them behind existing products. Coverage includes Circle, Tether, Paxos and BVNK, plus the banks and processors deciding whether to hold, issue or route them. It is a separate hub from crypto because the question is different: stablecoins are judged on whether they settle reliably and hold their peg, not on price. Tokenised deposits are covered here; tokenised funds and bonds sit under tokenisation.
Fintech—Charitarth Sindhu—September 17, 2026
Block Builders Bank is the name behind a new federal filing. On September 8, 2026, Block applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Builders Bank & Trust, N.A. The proposed national trust bank would hold bitcoin and stablecoins in custody under direct federal supervision. It would not take deposits
September 16, 2026
Circle Discovery API access went public on September 9, 2026. It was one of two infrastructure updates Circle shipped on its developer blog that day. One is speculative, and the other is immediately practical. The first opens a public, keyless endpoint that lets AI agents find and pay for x402 services across multiple blockchains. The
September 14, 2026
Latitude stablecoin payouts just attracted $35 million. Oak HC/FT led the Series A, with NEA, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, OpenFX and Wilson Sonsini participating. The round follows an $8 million seed earlier this year and takes total funding to $43 million. Inside the Latitude stablecoin payouts round Latitude stablecoin payouts run through licensed on and
September 14, 2026
The Tetra CADD stablecoin has its first white-label partner. Berkeley Payment Solutions will build CADD into its B2B payment infrastructure. That gives more than 500 corporate, government and institutional clients access to a token pegged to the Canadian dollar. The rollout targets large domestic transfers, cross-border payments between Canada and the US, corporate disbursements and
September 13, 2026
Zebec MoneyGram stablecoin payouts are now live through MoneyGram Ramps, the first fiat off-ramp inside Zebec's enterprise payroll platform. Note who announced it. Zebec Network, the Stellar Development Foundation and MoneyGram put their names to it jointly. That tells you something about how the chain is structured. Inside the Zebec MoneyGram stablecoin off-ramp The payroll
September 13, 2026
Marqeta BVNK stablecoin cards are the product of a partnership announced Wednesday. It lets Marqeta card-issuing customers embed stablecoin-backed cards into their programmes. Marqeta processed nearly $400 billion in payments volume during 2025. Meanwhile BVNK runs more than $39 billion in annualised stablecoin volume. Inside the Marqeta BVNK stablecoin deal The Marqeta BVNK stablecoin integration
September 12, 2026
USBDC stablecoin transactions went live this week between U.S. Bancorp entities in North America and Europe. The dollar-backed token was issued on the public Stellar blockchain rather than a private, permissioned ledger. U.S. Bank calls it one of the first bank-issued stablecoins deployed on a public chain. Inside the USBDC stablecoin pilot The USBDC stablecoin
September 2, 2026
KAST Business is the company's attempt to move stablecoin rails from personal spending into corporate treasury. The platform combines fiat virtual accounts, stablecoin and crypto deposits, virtual cards and payouts in more than 20 currencies across over 170 countries. What KAST Business Puts in One Account KAST Business holds fiat balances and stablecoin deposits side
August 31, 2026
Circle Chelsea sponsorship terms went public on Friday, when the stablecoin issuer became Chelsea Football Club principal partner and official front-of-shirt partner from the 2026/27 season. A gold USDC by Circle wordmark appears on the men's, women's and academy shirts, debuting at Chelsea's first Premier League home game of the season this Sunday against Brighton
August 25, 2026
Fasset Series C funding closed at $68 million on Monday, August 24, led by Japan's SBI Group at a $1 billion valuation. The announcement came from Los Angeles. It arrives three months after a $51 million Series B. That takes 2026 fundraising to $119 million and puts the company into the fintech unicorn column. The
August 21, 2026
Lithic Lightspark card settlement now runs on USDC rather than traditional fiat rails, and the mechanics matter more than the scale of the announcement. Lithic, the card issuing and processing platform, and Lightspark, the payments infrastructure company led by former PayPal president David Marcus, announced a partnership to power Lightspark's card program on the Visa
August 21, 2026
Yellow Card stablecoin infrastructure has drawn a cheque from a systemically significant bank, and that detail carries more weight than the headline figure. The company closed a $40 million strategic equity round from SC Ventures, the venture and fintech investment arm of Standard Chartered, alongside Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain Capital, Blockchain Capital and other strategic
August 11, 2026
Circle trust charter news landed on Friday, July 31. The New York Department of Financial Services granted a limited purpose charter to Circle Internet Trust Company LLC. That entity operates as Circle New York Trust. The authorisation carries fiduciary, custody and asset management powers under New York Banking Law. It also permits virtual currency business.
