Once relegated to the fringes of cryptocurrency markets, stablecoins are beginning to force a structural rethink of how digital money is defined, regulated, and used—particularly in the realm of cross-border payments and financial infrastructure. So let’s dive deeper in the stablecoin developments in payment.
The month of May 2025 marked a pivotal shift in the evolution of digital money, as developments in stablecoins, institutional crypto adoption, real world tokenization and new technical standards suggested a deeper integration of blockchain infrastructure into the mainstream financial system.
In this recent episode of the *Bitcoin, Fiat, and Rock and Roll* podcast, veteran payments expert Tony McLaughlin laid out a sweeping vision for the future of money—a future, he argues, that will be built not on traditional banking infrastructure, but on public blockchains and stablecoins.