Crypto Payment Solutions: May headlines

- Ethereum: Payment Giant Visa Deploys First Paymaster Smart Contract on ETH Testnet - on March 1, 2023, ERC-4337 was rolled out to the Ethereum mainnet, adding the ability for smart contracts to transact on behalf of the user (source)
- Tether and Strike have partnered to make USDT easily available for transactions via Strike's payment platform, the payment app is in expansion mode and has announced the move of its headquarters out of the United States (source)
- Stripe Rolls Out New Fiat-to-Crypto Onramp To Make Digital Asset Purchases More Convenient - Web3 companies can now direct their US-based customers to the link without the need for any access code (source)
- Transak Raises $20M - the startup offers on- and off-ramps that could make it easier for new users to interact with Web3 project (source)
- Argentina Bans Payment Apps From Offering Bitcoin to Customers - the central bank said Thursday that payment platforms cannot offer crypto trading services to their customers (source)

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