Bitcoin Maxi Jack Dorsey Embraces Stablecoin Payments in Cash App—On Solana

Bitcoin maximalist Jack Dorsey is among the many orange coin’s most outspoken advocates.

However his firm Money App will not be utilizing the main crypto community for its new stablecoin characteristic, as an alternative settling with Solana—at the very least to start with.

Money App, a unit of Block, on Thursday mentioned customers would be capable of quickly ship stablecoins. A spokesperson for the corporate instructed Decrypt that the brand new characteristic would “assist a number of stablecoins and networks” when it turns into accessible—probably subsequent 12 months.

“For the primary time, Money App will quickly present entry to stablecoins, permitting clients to ship and obtain digital {dollars} almost anyplace in seconds,” the corporate added in a press release.

Solana’s public relations group confirmed on X that it could energy funds with USDC on Money App. It retweeted a video of USDC issuer Circle’s CEO and co-founder Jeremy Allaire demonstrating a cost.

Solana is the crypto community behind the sixth greatest digital coin by market capitalization, SOL. It’s favored for sending stablecoins, minting NFTs, and even enjoying video games as a result of transactions are quick and cheap. Stablecoins can be found on quite a lot of different blockchains, together with Ethereum, Tron, and Solana.

Stablecoins are digital tokens pegged to the worth of fiat cash—usually U.S. {dollars}. Their use has elevated following U.S. President Donald Trump’s signing of the GENIUS Act, which established a long-sought regulatory framework for issuing and buying and selling the cryptocurrencies.

JP Morgan, Meta, Amazon and the U.S. state of Wyoming, amongst others, have issued or are engaged on issuing the tokens—with the hope of accelerating funds leveraging blockchain infrastructure.

Individually, Money App on Thursday introduced new Bitcoin options. The funds app will later this month enable individuals to ship funds utilizing the Lightning Community. Even when customers don’t maintain Bitcoin, they’ll be capable of choose an possibility so companies receiving a cost can get BTC as an alternative of {dollars}.

“As soon as accessible, eligible clients will be capable of flip their USD into Bitcoin funds with only a faucet,” Money App mentioned in a press release.

“After scanning a Lightning QR code, clients can toggle the ‘Money’ foreign money possibility inside Money App, which can pull the funds from their USD Money stability. Whereas the client is spending {dollars}, retailers will nonetheless obtain Bitcoin.”

The Lightning Community permits customers to ship Bitcoin cheaply and rapidly by skirting round the principle blockchain.

Dorsey, who based Twitter—now X—however left the corporate to focus his vitality on Bitcoin merchandise, has lengthy mentioned that he desires the main cryptocurrency for use as “on a regular basis cash.”

Money App additionally on Thursday unveiled a map characteristic permitting customers to see which companies of their space settle for Bitcoin. Earlier this month, Block enabled Bitcoin funds for 4 million retailers globally through its Sq. point-of-sale merchandise.

“We consider that Bitcoin is the way forward for the monetary ecosystem, however to really turn into on a regular basis cash, it must be extra versatile and simpler to make use of,” Block’s Bitcoin Product Lead Miles Suter mentioned in a press release.

He added in a submit on X: “The inspiration of Money App 1.0 is fiat already. Stablecoins are simply upgraded fintech rails. Our implementation is chain and coin agnostic.”

“We’re constructing Money App v2 on Bitcoin.”