Payments

Japanese Fintech heavyweight SBI Holdings plans to launch a Ripple-powered mobile payment application called MoneyTap.

Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful.

Spark is a web-based GUI wallet with built-in Electrum software designed for speed, safety and simplicity that utilizes Blockstream’s Lightning implementation c-lightning as its backend.

European users can now enable direct wire transfers from European banks to buy bitcon and other cryptocurrencies from their Abra wallets.

CoinGate, a bitcoin payment processor, has launched bitcoin Lightning Network payments on its platform, bringing the option to accept Lightning payments to its 4,000 clients.

The Lightning Hackday drew in some of the biggest Lightning and Bitcoin experts from around the world.

IBM has launched a blockchain-based payment system called Blockchain World Wire. According to IBM, the new payment network uses digital currency on Stellar's blockchain to "clear and settle cross-border payments" in near real time.

The technology could be a game changer for both Bitcoin lightning and mainnet users, as it would remove the transaction barriers between them.

U.S.-based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer.

Blockchain money transfer company Wyre has announced a partnership with MakerDAO, creator of the Dai stablecoin, to offer Dai as part of a fiat-crypto trading pair in more than 30 countries across the world including the U.S.