Citi, Coinbase Team Up To Let Merchants Accept Stablecoins
THE SO WHAT
Stablecoins are moving from crypto rails into bank-grade merchant acquiring—Citi giving institutional clients a way to accept them via Coinbase is a distribution unlock, not a tech experiment. If you touch cross-border or high-ticket B2B payments, you now have to assume at least one major counterparty will want stablecoin settlement in 6–18 months.
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