News, hires and insights from the Cyclops team.
There are hundreds of stablecoin companies, all with strengths and weaknesses. When payments companies assess stablecoin vendors, here are some of the key considerations.
Payoneer and Paxos veteran brings years of payments and stablecoin experience to the Cyclops team.
Cyclops has joined the x402 Foundation as a general member, working alongside the companies building on x402 to shape the open standard for agentic payments.
Paysafe and zerohash veteran joins the Cyclops leadership team.
The partnership turns Yuno, who orchestrates across over 1,000 traditional providers, into a top global stablecoin option as well, with fiat and blockchain rails now spanning 190+ countries.
How long does it take your payments company to build and ramp stablecoin products? One decision changes everything: your partner(s).
What it means for payments companies when the world's most regulated institutions start issuing digital dollars.
Depending on a single-provider FX partner is expensive for payments companies running cross-border flows. Here's what transparent routing can look like.
Eight years of building in crypto, stablecoins and payments — from The Giving Block to Shift4 to Cyclops — and what that journey taught us about what payments companies actually need.
Mastercard and Barclays veteran brings nearly a decade of crypto and digital asset partnerships experience to the Cyclops team.
Why business to business payments are where stablecoin adoption is happening fastest, and what that means for payments companies.
The concepts and buzzwords that keep coming up in stablecoin conversations, and what each one actually changes for payments companies.
Why the entry and exit points are where stablecoin adoption can stall and what payments companies need to solve it.
Why settlement certainty changes how treasury teams manage capital across markets.
Why faster settlement is one of the most valuable things a PSP can offer its merchants and how stablecoin rails make it possible.
In four months, Cyclops has doubled the team, opened its European headquarters in Vienna and closed its Series A. Here's what it's like to work here and who we're looking for next.
Cyclops has raised a $20M Series A led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Circle Ventures, GPT Ventures and Lasagna Ventures, to build the end-to-end stablecoin platform for global payments companies.
The questions payments companies should be asking when evaluating a stablecoin infrastructure partner — and what the answers should look like.
A deep dive into Cyclops Custom Solutions — stablecoin infrastructure built for how your payments company actually works.
How stablecoins are improving payments without anyone noticing.
What stablecoin rails mean for your currency conversion costs, timing and cross-border operations.
Why stablecoins are becoming the default payment layer for AI agents transacting autonomously, around the clock and across borders.
How stablecoins are helping payments companies move capital faster, manage it smarter and unlock more from what they already have.
Why one of the largest money movement use cases is shifting to blockchain rails.
Where stablecoins are already being used, which ones dominate in each market and what it means for the payments industry.
How payments companies are enabling their merchants to pay recipients faster, anywhere in the world.
The themes, conversations and signals that stood out to our team.
Two blockchain-based tools with fundamentally different jobs in payments infrastructure.
A look inside the Cyclops team's full week in Vienna — strategy, compliance, the office opening party and the people behind it all.
The frameworks that are in place, what's still being finalized and what it means for payments.
Why payments companies are adding crypto and stablecoin acceptance to their product offering.
The data, deals and forecasts that show where the stablecoin payments market is heading.
Meet the people building the stablecoin infrastructure that payments companies have been waiting for.
The payments companies that moved early, what they built and what it means for the rest of the industry.
Why payments companies are integrating stablecoin settlement into their infrastructure.
The biggest names in payments are embracing stablecoins for good reason — faster settlement, lower costs and truly global reach. Here's a breakdown of the basics.
Binance and EY veteran with extensive crypto infrastructure experience to lead Cyclops Europe.
Cyclops plants its flag in Europe as the stablecoin & crypto payments infrastructure opportunity accelerates across the continent.
How Cyclops's core products turn stablecoins into a competitive advantage for payments processors.
The data, deals and regulatory shifts that prove stablecoins have arrived as core payments infrastructure.
Payments industry professional from Spreedly and Fiserv brings over a decade of partnership and relationship management experience to the Cyclops team.
Why Hyper-Fixation is Our Founders’ Playbook. A great name can do a lot for a company — here’s the story behind ours.
Crypto payments veteran from JPMorgan Chase and Coinbase brings 16+ years of regulatory leadership experience to the Cyclops executive team.
Cyclops is now one of the top companies selected by Mastercard to help shape the future of on-chain payments.
2026 marks a turning point in how payments companies view stablecoins and crypto. Stablecoin supply crossed $300B in 2025 and annual transaction volumes hit $27T — surpassing major payment networks for the first time.
Cyclops is officially live, with the first stablecoin and crypto infrastructure platform built solely for the payments industry. With years of experience and millions in backing, Cyclops is pouring fuel on the stablecoin fire.