Stablecoin supply stalls, but payments jump 45% as Visa, Mastercard and Stripe connect crypto to cash

Crypto CoinDesk By Krisztian Sandor 18 Oct 2026 14:00 1 min read
Stablecoin supply stalls, but payments jump 45% as Visa, Mastercard and Stripe connect crypto to cash

Analytics firm Allium said stablecoin payments hit $482 billion this year so far, up 45%, as card spending surges and global payment firms add crypto rails.

Covered in this story

Analyst targets on Mastercard

Published targets verified against independent reporting and tracked to their dates. Not recommendations from Dalsna Finance.

Call it yourself

No member calls on $MA yet. A scorecard is a price target with a date and the working behind it — tracked, settled and scored in public.

Make the first call on Mastercard →

Dalsna Finance is currently tracking 32 stories mentioning Mastercard, the earliest published 31 Aug 2026.

Read the full story on CoinDesk → Opens the original article on www.coindesk.com

Summary aggregated from CoinDesk's public RSS feed. The full reporting belongs to CoinDesk — please read it on their site.