Question: What is faster, cheaper, and borderless—besides the internet? Answer: Stablecoins Web 3 payments—faster than traditional banking, cheaper than wire transfers, and borderless by design. In March, we hosted a webinar on demystifying Web 3 payments, marking the start of The Paypers’ deep dive into the topic for 2025. Through video interviews, reports, articles, and webinars, we aim to help businesses and consumers navigate how digital assets are reshaping finance. Our first webinar, ‘Web 3 Payments: Unlocking Faster, Cheaper, Borderless Transactions’, brought together top crypto payments experts to explore the transformative impact of Web 3 on the financial landscape

In early April 2025, The Paypers hosted a webinar titled Verification of Payee—Getting Ready for the Last Milestone, featuring payment specialists from Worldline and Projective Group. Matthieu Mulot, Global Product Manager for VoP and Compliance at Worldline, and Roderick Kroon, Global Solution Owner of Instant Payments and VoP at Projective Group, provided expert insights into the evolving regulatory landscape. The session offered a comprehensive overview of upcoming milestones, explored the primary challenges facing Payment Service Providers (PSPs), and shared actionable strategies to reduce risk and achieve compliance with the EU’s Verification of Payee (VoP) mandate. One of the key takeaways from the webinar was that not all players in the market have yet embarked on their Verification of Payee (VoP) journey, underlining the urgency of addressing this issue. The biggest challenge identified was meeting compliance deadlines on time—a concern that is becoming increasingly pressing as regulatory timelines draw closer. The high level of engagement during the QA session, which generated more questions than could be answered in a single session, highlighted just how many uncertainties still surround VoP implementation

by Max MaxfieldThere are many things I’ve not really thought about before. I don’t like to boast (I pride myself on my humility), but I bet I’ve not thought about more things than most people. One reason I say this is that I keep on being introduced to new things I’ve never even considered.Take the power supply portion of embedded systems and the “things” part of the IoT, for example. I think it’s fair to say that this is right at the top of the list of things that rarely flits across (what I laughingly call) my mind. To be honest, I’ve always thought of power supplies as being something of a “black art.” Happily, in the case of any real-world* projects I’ve worked on, designing the power supply portion of the system has always been someone else’s problem (*as opposed to my hobby projects, in which everything is my problem).I’m a logic design engineer by trade. The trusty 0s and 1s embodied in digital logic make me feel safe and secure