Mastercard is going full crypto 💳✨

What we’ll cover today:

💳 Mastercard teams with Circle for stablecoin payments

🏦 Banks sneak USDC into cross-border pipes

🐋 Japan’s Metaplanet plans $837M Bitcoin binge

Mastercard’s Stablecoin Swipe 💳 → 🔗

Mastercard (the card giant) and Circle (the stablecoin maker) are teaming up to let merchants settle payments using digital dollars and euros.

🚨Breaking News: Mastercard will now allow banks across Europe, Middle East, and Africa to settle instantly using Circle’s USDC and EURC.

⚡Wire Simplified –

• Mastercard acquirers (banks that handle card payments) can settle in stablecoins.

• Settlements are instant, with fewer fees than banks.

• Circle wants USDC to be as common as swiping your debit card.

• This move came right after the US GENIUS Act gave stablecoins a green light.

• Both companies say this is a mainstream payments moment.

✔️Straight to the Point: Mastercard and Circle just took crypto from cool kid to corporate suit. The boring part? This could actually work.

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Circle Sneaks USDC Into Banks 🏦

Circle (the USDC stablecoin creator) and Finastra (a banking software giant) are teaming up to plug stablecoins into global bank pipes.

🚨Breaking News: Finastra’s Global PAYplus platform with $5 trillion daily transfers will now support USDC for faster, cheaper cross-border settlements.

⚡Wire Simplified –

• Banks can keep using normal fiat on both ends.

• Behind the scenes money moves via USDC on blockchain.

• No ripping out old systems, it is a plug and play upgrade.

• Finastra powers 45 of the top 50 global banks.

• Circle wants to beat Tether not by size but by legitimacy.

✔️Straight to the Point: Circle just convinced banks to sneak crypto into their plumbing. If it works, USDC becomes less trader toy and more bank backbone.

Japan’s Metaplanet Goes Full Bitcoin Whale 🐋

Tokyo based Metaplanet is selling shares to raise $837M not for new projects but just to buy Bitcoin. Yes, really.

🚨Breaking News: Metaplanet will issue 555M new shares and use almost all proceeds to load up its Bitcoin treasury.

⚡Wire Simplified –

• Already Asia’s biggest Bitcoin holder with 18,991 BTC.

• New plan adds potentially $837M worth of BTC.

• Dilutes shares from 722M to nearly 1.3B.

• Company cites Japan’s huge debt and weak yen.

• Targeting overseas investors only, not domestic buyers.

✔️Straight to the Point: Metaplanet is betting the house on Bitcoin. In Japan where the yen is melting, Bitcoin looks like the new umbrella.