Stablecoins Move Into Mainstream Payments and Wallets

Zoltan Vardai / Cointelegraph : Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to $36M — Tazapay said Circle led a Series B extension that brought total funding to $36 million as the company expands cross-border payment rails.

Elena Vardon / Wall Street Journal : London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, a £1.7B pre-tax profit, up from £1.1B in 2024, and customers up 33%, as it moves to become a bank — Revenue rose 46% last year as its customer base grew by around a third, the fintech said

Stripe released purl, a curl-like command-line tool for making HTTP requests that require payment. Designed for both human users and automated agents, purl integrates payment flows into standard CLI request patterns and is open source on GitHub. Installation options include Homebrew and a provided shell installer; usage covers adding a wallet and calling free or paid endpoints (example shows a paid test endpoint costing 0.01 USDC). This matters because it embeds micropayments into web APIs and developer tooling, simplifying paid API access, experimental monetized endpoints, and agent workflows that need to transact programmatically.

A Hacker News post highlights “purl,” a curl-like command-line tool designed to make HTTP requests to endpoints that require payment, linking to purl.dev. The submission, posted by user bpierre about two hours before the snapshot, had 10 points at the time shown. Beyond the title and link, the captured page provides no technical details about how purl handles payments (for example, supported payment rails, authentication, pricing, or protocol changes), nor does it include discussion content or documentation excerpts. The item matters because it points to emerging tooling for paid APIs and paywalled HTTP resources, potentially simplifying developer workflows where access is gated by micropayments or billing. However, the available information is limited to the listing metadata.

Stripe has released purl, a curl-like command-line tool for making HTTP requests to endpoints that require payment. The project is positioned for both human developers and automated agents, aiming to simplify calling paid APIs from the terminal. According to the project description, users first set up a wallet using “purl wallet add,” then can send requests to free or paid test endpoints. The example shows a paid request costing 0.01 USDC. Installation options include Homebrew (“brew install stripe/purl/purl”) and a shell script fetched from purl.dev. Stripe also provides the source code on GitHub. The tool matters as more APIs adopt pay-per-request models, and purl offers a standardized CLI workflow for authenticated, paid HTTP calls.

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time, or irregular vendors, raised a $40M Series C, bringing its total funding to more than $120M — For companies operating around the world, hiring vendors for one-off purchases in other countries can be a complicated process, eating up time and resources.

Ben Weiss / Fortune : PayPal expands access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and UK to 70 countries in total, including new markets in Uganda, Colombia, Peru, and Malawi — PayPal is dramatically expanding the map of countries where users can send and receive its branded stablecoin.

Timmy Shen / The Block : Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds — Quick Take — MetaComp, a digital finance infrastructure provider, said it has raised a total of $35 million across two Pre-A funding rounds completed within three months.

This is the first global fintech I've seen that consolidates all of this into one platform: • Payments • Multi-currency accounts • Spend management • Billing One dashboard. One place to track everything. [翻译] 这是我见过的第一个将所有功能整合到一个平台的全球金融科技产品： • 支付 • 多币种账户 • 支出管理 • 账单 一个仪表板。一个地方追踪所有事项。

Bloomberg : Stablecoin payments company KAST raised $80M led by QED and Left Lane; sources say the fundraise is at a $600M valuation, and KAST expects $100M ARR in 2026 — KAST, a stablecoin payments firm, has raised $80 million in its latest funding round, as venture capitalists continue to pour money …

Startups building fintech products must choose APIs that shape long-term technical debt, compliance, and scalability; the article argues integration complexity, not feature choice, often breaks startups. It highlights payment rails and banking connectivity: Stripe is the go-to for card payments, subscriptions, Connect marketplace features and embedded banking via Stripe Treasury; Adyen suits enterprise global commerce; Square fits physical retail. For ACH and reconciliation, Dwolla and Modern Treasury address bank transfers and payment ops. Banking data connectivity leaders like Plaid are implied as essential but bring normalization and webhook/versioning challenges. The piece stresses unified API solutions can reduce maintenance, mitigate provider-specific breakages, and simplify testing and operations. Key players: Stripe, Adyen, Square, Dwolla, Modern Treasury, Plaid.

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Visa and Stripe's Bridge plan to expand their partnership to issue stablecoin-linked cards in 100+ countries; the cards are currently live in 18 countries  —  The world's biggest fintech and the world's largest payments network are expanding their stablecoin partnership.

Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet  —  The Facebook owner's stablecoin integration involves planning a third party vendor to help administer stablecoin-based payments …