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Simon Taylor on the Stablecoin Economy (the Payments Pulse)
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The Plumbing Should Be Invisible: Simon Taylor on Stablecoins, Settlement, and What Comes Next

Simon Taylor wears more hats than most. He writes the Fintech Brain Food newsletter, hosts the Tokenized podcast covering stablecoins and real-world assets, runs Fintech NerdCon, and serves as Head

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Stablecoin Payments in APAC: The Region With the Most Wallets and Growing Fast

Ask which region has the most stablecoin wallets and the answer isn't close: Asia, at 563,171 holders in the dataset behind this analysis, representing 50.6% of all holders measured globally. Ask

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Stablecoin Payments in Latin America: Why Gas Fees Are the Real Barrier to Adoption

Latin America shows up in almost every piece of stablecoin adoption research as one of the regions where demand is least in question. Currency volatility across several major economies, expensive and

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The Best Payment Infrastructure Is the Kind Nobody Notices

Nobody thinks about which card network is processing their payment when they tap to pay for coffee. Nobody thinks about TCP/IP when they load a webpage. The best infrastructure, in payments and

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Build vs Buy: The Real Cost of Building Your Own Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure

Every PSP evaluating stablecoin payments eventually asks the same question internally: should we build this ourselves? The instinct is understandable. Stablecoin settlement seems conceptually simple:

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In-Store Crypto Payments: How QR and Tap-to-Pay Are Replacing Cards at Checkout

Contactless card payments took years to become boring. Tap the card, wait a second, walk away, and nobody thinks twice about it anymore. Crypto payments at physical retail are heading toward that same

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Why Cross-Border Payments Are Moving to Stablecoins (And What It Means for PSPs)

Cross-border payments have been the same for decades: send money through a correspondent bank, wait for it to hop through one or two intermediaries, and hope the fees don't eat too much of what

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How PSPs Can Support Stablecoin and Crypto Wallet Payments Without Replacing Card Rails

The misconception worth clearing up first A lot of PSPs come into conversations about crypto payments, assuming it means ripping out the card stack and replacing it with something blockchain-native.

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The Business Case for Accepting Stablecoins: Lower Fees, Bigger Baskets

The fee gap is larger than most merchants realise. Card payments typically run 2.5 to 3.5% in fees. Stablecoin payments through a rail like WalletConnect Pay run 0.5 to 1.0%, up to 80% less. On a

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Prediction Markets Are Booming. Here's What WalletConnect Enables for Them.

Prediction markets are no longer a niche corner of crypto. Monthly trading volume on Kalshi and Polymarket combined has risen from less than $5 billion in September 2025 to around $24 billion in April

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Stablecoin Payments Don't Have a Compliance Problem. They Have a Compliance Infrastructure Gap.

Ask any PSP why they haven't turned on stablecoin acceptance yet, and the answer almost never starts with technology. It starts with compliance. That's not a perception problem. It's a real gap. Under

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Agentic Commerce Is Coming. Most Payment Rails Aren't Ready For It.

Right now, every payment still assumes a human is in the loop: clicking, confirming, typing in a card number, hitting "pay." That assumption is about to break. AI agents are starting to handle

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