Stablecoins moved deeper into everyday payments: Mastercard and Stripe opened card and merchant rails to them, and the EBA made USDC the EU's first significant e-money token. Wall Street kept building onchain, from BNY's tokenized repo to Ripple's 24/7 RWA perps.
Five that actually mattered:
— Mastercard opens its network to stablecoins
— EBA names USDC a significant e-money token
— BNY settles a tokenized repo with Citadel
— Stripe and Plasma build multi-currency cards
— Solana sets Alpenglow for Oct 21
