In March 2026, Meta revealed plans to compensate content creators using USDC, a stablecoin tied to the U.S. dollar. Initial deployment began in Colombia and the Philippines, with the company aiming to reach more than 160 nations before year-end.
Stripe, Visa and Mastercard unite to launch a stablecoin platform. Circle collapses by 11%, Tether trembles.
Mastercard is expanding its global settlement infrastructure to support additional intraday, weekend, and holiday settlement windows, as well as on-chain settlement using regulated stablecoins, the company said Wednesday. Mastercard rolls out always-on settlement with Circle, Paxos and Ripple stablecoins.