Mastercard’s Trust Layer: The Compliance Bottleneck That Could Decide Who Wins Stablecoin Payments
The primary obstacle to global stablecoin adoption is not the speed of settlement, but the friction of compliance. As stablecoin volumes surge — Circle’s Q2 2026 report showed $14.8 trillion in onchain volume, up 151% year-over-year — the industry faces a structural bottleneck. Every transaction between disparate providers currently requires redundant verification, a process that […]
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