• Cryptocurrencies,  Technology

    Paytrie Launches Canadian Dollar Stablecoin Remittances

    CACD stablecoin to give Canadians a way to avoid U.S. dollar payments

    Stablecoin infrastructure company Paytrie has launched what it claims is a first-of-its-kind Canadian dollar stablecoin remittance service. The service uses CACD, a Canadian-dollar stablecoin issued by Loon to deliver fast, affordable payments to countries around the world, starting with Mexico and Nigeria. That’s not to say that CACD is making the whole voyage to remittance recipients. Instead, Canadian users convert Canadian dollars into CACD, which is then converted into Circle’s U.S.-dollar-denominated stablecoin USDC. That is then routed through the Circle Payments Network for a local currency payout in the recipient country. This allows Canadian dollar-backed digital assets to be used for real-world cross-border payments Paytrie called Canada “a diaspora country,”…

  • That XRP logo is moving very fast (via Shutterstock).
    Ripple,  Technology

    Ripple, Intermex pen Mexican remittances deal

    International Money Express will use the blockchain payments company’s XRP-powered On-Demand Liquidity service to cut costs and reduce wait times

    In an announcement Tuesday, Ripple said that its technology will be used for a new XRP-based remittance service from Intermex, a money remittance services company focused primarily on the Latin America and Caribbean corridor.

  • PlanetWatch and Algorand put air quality test results on a blockchain (Photo: Flickr)
    Technology

    Algorand puts air quality test results on a blockchain

    The DeFi-focused blockchain firm is teaming up with PlanetWatch to create an immutable record of global air quality test results

    In addition to using Algorand’s open-source, permissionless blockchain to quickly disseminate and permanently record pollution readings, PlanetWatch plans to use it to reward volunteers who maintain pollution sensors with Planet utility tokens.

  • MoneyGram suspends RippleNet
    XRP

    MoneyGram confirms massive XRP use in Mexican peso transactions

    The money transfer service’s partnership with liquidity provider RippleNet now accounts for 10% of its Mexican business, and is set to go global

    The head of MoneyGram confirmed today that the global money transfer company has been using XRP cryptocurrency to exchange U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos extensively since July.