Crypto Payment Solutions: March headlines

- Telegram's Wallet Bot @wallet Integrates Tether (USDT) Payments on Tron Network: users can now send and receive USDT directly from their chats, as well as buy, swap, and make P2P trades with the stablecoin (source)
- Silvergate suspends crypto payments network; shares fall after-hours: Silvergate on Wednesday warned in a filing that it was evaluating its ability to operate as a going concern, Coinbase Global Inc, Galaxy Digita, Paxos, Circle, Bitstamp and Gemini suspended their partnerships with Silvergate after the warning (source)
- Visa, Mastercard Halt Crypto Initiatives Pending Industry And Regulatory Recovery, previously both companies forged multiple partnerships with crypto firms and dedicated teams to explore blockchain technology (source)
- U.S. Federal Reserve’s Real-Time Payments System FedNow Coming in July, FedNow has been seen as a potential precursor to a central bank digital currency (CBDC) (source)
- Bybit Launches Debit Card for Crypto Payments: the Bybit card will operate on the Mastercard network and will initially allow fiat-based transactions by debiting cryptocurrency balances when used to pay for goods and services (source)

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