USDC drives a 33% jump in crypto card spending to $4.31 billion
Crypto card spending rose 33% to $4.31 billion in the third quarter, Cryptopolitan reported. The outlet credits USDC with the growth, though its own September figures suggest the two big stablecoins paid for under half of that spending.
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- Adoption45
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The request came from an unauthorized account on a real government domain, and Revolut acted on it. The company calls the number of affected customers limited, and it declined to say how many or name the agency.
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Swift's ledger coordinated FAB and Citi's tokenized dollars while existing systems settled them
A consortium of 21 financial institutions plans a dollar stablecoin for 2027, and USDC already runs natively on 35 blockchains, so TransFi's Raj Kamal argues the ledger underneath the money now matters as much as the issuer.
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- Evidence28
- Adoption41
- Hype gap+14
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Revolut ships a euro stablecoin holding 13 cents of float per eligible user
EURR is about 1,570 times smaller than Circle's EURC and locked inside one app, which is what a distribution test looks like when the goal is replacing USDT for 16 million crypto-active customers rather than earning reserve income.
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EURR is issued by a Stripe-owned Luxembourg entity, not by Revolut. The regulated fintechs are distributing on-chain money; the balance-sheet obligation sits elsewhere.
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