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This is edition #6, and the last one of our pilot week of Strategy Screenshots!
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Crypto was pitched as the way around traditional finance.
Banks, exchanges, payments, etc.
Stablecoins are currently having their talk-of-the-town moment (tldr: regulatory clarity is driving corporate adoption for high-speed settlement use cases like cross-border transfers).
But 96% of stablecoin card spending still runs through Visa.
Ironic that we’re building highways and cars, but the winner is still the railroad tycoon.


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Rain adds Mastercard - the issuer behind many of these cards already sat on Visa. In May it joined Mastercard too.

Stripe sells the plumbing too - our breakdown of Stripe's platform play: growing through their users’ own users.
From under $1M a month to $1.2B - Visual Capitalist charts stablecoin card spending’s 2000x climb.
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Data source for today's Screenshot: Paymentscan


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