Allium's Q3 2026 'State of Stablecoins and Payments' puts year-to-date payment volume at $482B (+45%), transactions at 1.04B (+71%), and the average payment size down from $544 to $462.
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Marqeta and Coinbase announced on October 16 an expanded card partnership; Coinbase custodies the stablecoins and settles on Base, Marqeta issues and processes.
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Mastercard launches Global Money Platform on October 15, the first product from its $1.8B BVNK acquisition; Nuvei, Marqeta, Ontop, Beem and Almond FinTech are early customers.
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Mastercard's June 3 update lets issuers settle card flows on-chain in USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD and SoFiUSD across Ethereum, Solana, XRPL and five others.