Blockchain.com Launches Brazil Payments Platform as KuCoin Expands Rails

Crypto exchanges Blockchain.com and KuCoin rolled out new fee companies on Wednesday that join digital property with native monetary infrastructure in a number of rising markets.

Blockchain.com mentioned it launched a Brazil-focused funds platform for institutional shoppers that makes use of USDC (USDC) and USDt (USDT) to help cross-border treasury operations, provider funds and payroll. The corporate mentioned the service is designed to present companies a quicker and lower-cost different to conventional worldwide wire transfers.

KuCoin, in the meantime, expanded its fee community throughout Mexico, Bangladesh and Zambia, including help for Mexico’s SPEI banking system, Bangladesh’s bKash and Nagad cell fee platforms, and mobile-money networks operated by MTN and Airtel in Zambia.

KuCoin mentioned the integrations are meant to make it simpler for customers to maneuver digital property by fee techniques already broadly used for remittances, service provider transactions and peer-to-peer transfers. Not like Blockchain.com’s Brazil providing, which targets companies managing treasury and worldwide fee flows, KuCoin’s rollout is concentrated on consumer-facing fee networks.

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Stablecoins energy cross-border commerce in rising markets

In a current report, Latin American change Bitso mentioned stablecoin transaction quantity amongst institutional shoppers grew 81% year-on-year within the first half of 2026, pushed by rising use of blockchain-based settlement, treasury administration and cross-border liquidity companies.

The report additionally discovered that monetary establishments accounted for greater than 60% of recent enterprise shoppers added throughout the interval, suggesting banks and fee suppliers are more and more incorporating stablecoin rails into present monetary operations.

Bitso’s “Stablecoin Panorama in Latin America report for the primary half of 2026.” Supply: Bitso

The pattern extends past Latin America. In a September 2025 report on crypto adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa, Chainalysis said stablecoins are continuously utilized in high-value commerce flows between Africa, the Center East and Asia, together with multi-million-dollar transfers supporting sectors such as vitality and service provider funds.

Corporations are investing in infrastructure to help that progress. Final week, Trace Finance raised $32 million to increase its cross-border settlement community throughout Latin America, the USA and Asia-Pacific. The corporate mentioned it had processed greater than $10 billion in transaction quantity and would use the funding to increase infrastructure connecting blockchain-based funds with native banking and foreign-exchange networks.

Regardless of rising adoption, regulatory questions stay. In Might, Brazil’s central financial institution prohibited using digital property in sure regulated cross-border payment services, reinforcing necessities that Digital International Change suppliers settle transactions by supervised foreign-exchange channels.

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