Global stablecoin payment card spending reached $1.231 billion in September 2026, with cumulative spending in the third quarter reaching approximately $3.394 billion. RedotPay's spending in September was approximately $403 million, and its market share decreased from approximately 85% to approximately 33%. Stablecoin payment cards are highly dependent on traditional card organizations, with Visa processing the vast majority of transactions.

Visa disclosed in its Q4 FY2026 earnings call that its stablecoin-settled annualized transaction volume exceeded $25 billion, a tenfold year-over-year increase, and currently supports 10 blockchains and operates in 5 regions. The Visa stablecoin platform is available in the US, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Switzerland, and the UK, with over 300 partners; OpenUSD launched on September 30th, and as of October 15th, its circulating supply exceeded $800 million. Furthermore, Visa has over 225 stablecoin-linked card projects, representing a year-over-year increase of over 70%, with transaction volume growing by over 150%, covering 5 million cards in over 50 countries.

Alipay stated on its X platform that it does not support cryptocurrency trading and related services. Peer's claim that it supports buying and selling USDC through Alipay is false and unauthorized. Alipay reminds users to protect their funds and account security.

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The Solana validator client Agave version 4.4 will optimize transaction execution, automatically adjust storage capacity, simplify block validation, and adjust staking reward calculation. This version will complete the account storage rent reduction plan, lowering the minimum balance per byte required to maintain rent exemption from 6,960 lamports to 696 lamports, a cumulative reduction of 90%. Ghost estimates that approximately 3.08 million SOL (approximately $300 million) will be recoverable on-chain after these adjustments are implemented.