🍏 🔍 ✖️ Apple, Google, and X Consider Integrating Stablecoins into Their Payment Systems — Fortune

• Major tech companies — including Apple, X (formerly Twitter), Airbnb, Google, Meta, and Uber — are in early talks with crypto firms about integrating stablecoins.
• The goal is to reduce transaction costs and simplify international transfers.
• Google Cloud already accepts payments in the stablecoin PYUSD (issued by PayPal). Payments are processed normally but settled via blockchain.
• According to sources, Apple has been in negotiations with Circle — the issuer of $USDC — since January.
• The focus is on regulatory changes in the U.S. and the surge in venture funding for the sector.

🗣 Big Tech’s interest is another sign that stablecoins could become blockchain’s “killer app” — pushing it into mainstream finance. #Crypto #Tech