Stablecoins moved deeper into everyday payments: Mastercard and Stripe opened card and merchant rails to them, and the EBA made USDC the EU's first significant e-money token. Wall Street kept building onchain, from BNY's tokenized repo to Ripple's 24/7 RWA perps.

Five that actually mattered:

— Mastercard opens its network to stablecoins

— EBA names USDC a significant e-money token

— BNY settles a tokenized repo with Citadel

— Stripe and Plasma build multi-currency cards

— Solana sets Alpenglow for Oct 21