Coinme, which provides kiosks and ATMs for digital currencies, raised $1.5 million in a Series A financing round.
Functioning like a pipeline for commercial transactions, SPEDN processes regular purchases in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin or ethereum.
Retail giant Walmart has applied for a cryptocurrency patent that bears some similarities to the Libra token proposed by Facebook in mid-June.
Twitter users can tip content using Brave's Basic Attention Token, adding to its micro-tipping services.
Mobile shoppers can earn bitcoin for purchases from Amazon, Starbucks and Target, just to name a few.
Tether has a real-world use case: Chinese importers of cheap goods in Russia use it to send millions home daily.
Online electronics and software retail giant Newegg has expanded bitcoin payments to nearly all of its served countries in partnership with BitPay.
The bitcoin rewards app Lolli is going global in 2019, starting with the travel industry.
2gether, a European payment app allowing users to spend crypto via a Visa debit card, is adding dash to its list of nine supported coins.
Now in beta for the iPhone, Breez's app harnesses lighting, Neutrino and atomic swaps to make bitcoin P2P payments feasible for daily transactions.
Japanese app provider LINE Pay Corporation has inked a deal with Visa to create new fintech services for their retail and merchant customers.
Grocery chain Dixy has partnered with a blockchain startup to greatly reduce the time it takes to pay suppliers
SBI Ripple Asia is live testing in-store payments using its Ripple xCurrent-powered Money Tap app before a full launch "this year."
Coinbase Commerce, the crypto exchange's merchants payments offering, has added support for dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin.
U.K.-licensed payments platform Wirex is launching 26 fiat-backed stablecoins on the Stellar blockchain network.