Stablecoins Hit 40M Retail Terminals

Stablecoins are no longer confined to DeFi dashboards and crypto-native apps. In the span of a single quarter, two major partnerships have brought stablecoin payments to physical retail at global scale — and the infrastructure behind them is something every fintech developer and crypto developer in the UK should understand. Ingenico has launched native stablecoin checkout across its 40 million Android POS terminals via WalletConnect Pay, whilst Paysafe has integrated MoonPay's stablecoin rails into its $167 billion-a-year payment platform. For payment developers, the message is clear: stablecoin acceptance at the point of sale is now production infrastructure, not a pilot programme. How Stablecoin Checkout Works at Physical POS The Ingenico-WalletConnect integration is the first to bring native stablecoin payments to physical retail terminals without requiring new hardware. Here is how the flow works from a payment developer's perspective: Customer initiates payment. At checkout, the c