Mercado Bitcoin, the leading crypto exchange in Brazil, officially launched MB Pay after being granted the Central Bank’s approval to act as a payment institution.

The two companies and a third unnamed global tier 1 bank carried out the repurchase agreement transactions on Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo platform. The functionality enhances the possibilities for intraday liquidity management.

Tether and Strike money app have merged their user bases by adding USDT to the bitcoin-only platform.

Tether and KriptonMarket announced a collaboration which will give small businesses access to stablecoins at the Central Market of Buenos Aires.

Barbados-based Abed Group launches its accounts payable solution ADAR on the SORA blockchain network.

Tron’s Justin Sun and Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson use their projects’ communities to profit from meme-coin season in crypto. The head of Binance, Chanpeng Zhao, does not seem to mind the additional business either.

Digital Asset’s “network of networks” allows normally siloed financial systems and institutional assets to interact and synchronize in previously impossible ways. Participants include BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Cboe Global Markets, Microsoft and many others.

Bitcoin transaction fees are currently sky-high, as the generally drama-free network is hit by a recent craze for NFTs and dodgy meme-coins on the platform. There have even been calls to patch the ‘bug’ that made such ‘abominations’ possible…