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Visa on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/visa/Recent content in Visa on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright ©2021 <br> Designed & Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:21:45 +0000Clarity Act dies, Base deploys Cobalt, and Stripe picks Open USDhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-02-crypto/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:21:45 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-02-crypto/The Senate’s failure to pass the Clarity Act cleared the way for sudden regulatory relief, including a five-year SEC exemption for tokenized equities and safe-harbor guidance on token buybacks. Stripe made Open USD its default stablecoin across card issuance rails on Tempo, while Base deployed its Cobalt hard fork featuring dormant conditional transactions and institutional asset controls. Cross-border banking moves forward as Lloyds and Visa pilot 24/7 stablecoin settlement, even as Dune data shows 99.994% of tokenized Treasury cash sits completely idle.NYSE's Avalanche Test, Visa's Memecoin Crackdown, and Onchain AIhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-21-crypto/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:19:31 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-21-crypto/The NYSE has spent the past year testing Avalanche technology for its tokenized equities platform, with Ava Labs President Charley Cooper confirming a “close working relationship” with parent company ICE, though no final settlement chain has been named. Visa is closing the memecoin rewards loophole after an investigation revealed Crossmint was processing memecoin purchases under the “digital media” merchant code, with the grace period ending next week. In a first, an LLM inference run was executed entirely as onchain Solana transactions, with model weights and attention calculations processed as standard SVM program calls. S&P Global has acquired OpenZeppelin, extending its ratings infrastructure into blockchain security after processing over $37 trillion in cumulative transactions. Post-quantum security is now a procurement issue, with Google setting a 2029 readiness target.Tokenized Stocks Out-Trade the NYSE During a 89.5-Hour Shutdownhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-10-crypto/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:49:04 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-10-crypto/Tokenized stocks moved $1 billion in volume while US markets were shut for Labor Day, nearly matching Friday’s $1.02 billion across 42 tokens on four platforms. Jack Dorsey’s Block filed for a federal bank charter as the OCC has approved 21 of 40 de novo applications since 2025. A 22-year-old pleaded guilty to leading a $245M crypto theft ring. Visa revealed 160+ stablecoin card programs with 200% YoY payment growth and a $2.5B onchain credit facility. Ethereum researchers proposed EIP-8250 keyed nonces to slash storage from 64 bytes to 1-2 bytes.Visa's stablecoin settlement hits $20B run rate; Ethereum targets quantum-safe L1 by 2029https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-09-crypto/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:18:50 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-09-crypto/Visa’s stablecoin settlement volume topped a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15x year-over-year, with 160+ card programs live and Credit Coop’s smart-contract lending cutting borrowing costs up to 30%. Ethereum Foundation set a firm December 2029 deadline for quantum resistance across its L1, planning for “Q-day” as early as 2030. Robinhood Chain generated ~$33 million in fees over 15 days, beating Solana and BNB Chain combined, with Bernstein reiterating a $160 price target. A third attack wave on Coldcard users saw 45% of stolen Bitcoin moved, evading interdiction. Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP memecoin launches on Base September 9 with 20% of supply earmarked for $TRUMP losers.Stripe and Advent walk away from a $53B PayPal bid; Walmart flips on Apple Payhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-fintech/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:11:36 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-fintech/Stripe and Advent International have abandoned their pursuit of a $50B+ acquisition of PayPal after the board rejected their $60.50-per-share offer, sending PayPal down as much as 16% premarket. Socure raised at a $5.2B valuation and bought Fravity to fold agentic fraud automation into RiskOS. The Ninth Circuit ruled sports-event contracts are gambling, not swaps, teeing up a CFTC-vs-states fight at the Supreme Court. RQD Clearing raised $74M to expand its modern clearing stack into new regions and digital assets. And Walmart will start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at select stores this week, ending a decade-long refusal.Ethereum's Fast Blocks, Visa's Korean Stablecoin Push, and the Death of Microtransaction Feeshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:13:32 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/Ethereum’s protocol developers outlined concrete timelines for reducing block times from 12 seconds to under 1 second within two hard forks, directly cutting idle capital and settlement costs for DeFi applications. Shinhan Financial Group signed with Visa to build Korea-specific stablecoin infrastructure, combining banking, card, and payment rails into a single institutional deployment. Meanwhile, EIP-8130 emerged as the preferred account abstraction path for EVM rollups, with Base targeting a 2x per-transaction cost reduction in its upcoming Cobalt upgrade.