Stablecoins move across borders in minutes at a fraction of the cost of a wire. However, they are only as sound as the reserves behind them, the code that runs them, and the controls a business puts around them

Most people new to crypto sort the market into Bitcoin and "everything else." That second group holds two very different kinds of assets: altcoins built to grow in value, and stablecoins built to hold a fixed value.

A blockchain payment is a transfer of value recorded on a distributed ledger rather than processed through banks and card networks.

Blockchain payments settle value on a shared ledger that any party can verify, without the chain of intermediaries that makes traditional cross-border payments slow and expensive.