MetaMask unveils all-in-one Money Account offerings users up to 4% APY on mUSD holdings. Consensys tapped Monad as Money Account's "home chain," and will initially use Morpho vaults to generate yield. Daniel Kuhn Aggregated content from By Daniel Kuhn · Jun 30, 2026 Public RSS feed; short extracts under fair use / fair dealing KSCAPE displays a short extract from the source under fair use / EU Art. 15 'very short extract' / fair dealing principles. The full article is available on the source's website. Recommended Exchange Trade Anything, Anywhere Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Cryptocurrency investments involve significant risk. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial professional before making investment decisions. Daniel Kuhn Senior Analyst · KSCAPE Intelligence Covering crypto markets, DeFi protocols, and institutional adoption with a focus on on-chain data.

SimpleSwap integrates with Monad to enable asset transfers into the ecosystem. 4 hours ago George Town, Cayman Islands, May 25th, 2026, Chainwire SimpleSwap is integrating with Monad, enabling assets to be moved into the ecosystem directly, without reliance on third parties or complex bridge setups. Importance Assets are scattered across dozens of networks. With the launch of a new L1, access to the ecosystem is a primary consideration. SimpleSwap streamlines this process; enabling asset movement while maintaining full user control throughout. Key Features * Self-custody throughout. Assets are sent from a user-owned address and received to a user-owned address, with access to exchange-level rates along the way. * No repeated verification. Account creation or sign-up is not required to complete a swap. * Ready on day one. Asset movement into the Monad ecosystem is supported without bridges or additional steps. From the team "Monad handles performance at the protocol level. Our job is to make sure getting into the network is just as simple," said Stefan Lauer, Head of Infrastructure at SimpleSwap. "The first prerequisite for a healthy ecosystem is global access. Over 30 fiat onramp and offramp providers are currently integrated with Monad, and SimpleSwap's integration further reduces friction for users to get involved with the expanding range of applications on the Monad network," said Keone Hon, Co-Founder and GM at Monad Foundation. About SimpleSwap SimpleSwap is a self-custodial multi-source swap aggregator. It handles wallet-to-wallet swaps by aggregating liquidity from well-known CEX and DEX sources, so users get more privacy and control without manually comparing providers. The platform supports 2,800+ assets, 3.2M+ trading pairs, 6,000+ partner integrations, and has processed over 20M swaps. Uptime: 99.9%. Support: 24/7. About Monad Monad is a high-performance, institutional-grade Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built to power the financial layer of the internet. Fully EVM-compatible, Monad delivers 10,000 TPS, 400ms block times, 800ms finality, and near-zero fees - without requiring specialised hardware. The network runs on consumer-grade machines, supporting accessible participation and decentralized network operation: over 200 independently operated validators across 30+ countries and 55+ cities secure the chain today. Contact. SimpleSwap [email protected] Disclaimer: This is third-party content supplied by the issuer and published for informational purposes. Yellow does not independently verify the statements herein and assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. Nothing herein constitutes investment, legal, accounting, or tax advice, or a solicitation to buy or sell any asset.

Monad and Rain are testing stablecoin cards as real payment rails. Business / Crypto | Monad's integration with Rain gives Monad-based stablecoins a path into card spending through Rain partner programs accepted by Visa-affiliated merchants in more than 150 countries. The bigger test is whether crypto startups can turn on-chain balances into everyday payment infrastructure without making users think about the blockchain underneath. Janet Harrison has over 16 years... May 16, 2026 Monad's Rain integration is less about another crypto card and more about whether blockchains can disappear into everyday payments. The test is simple: can stablecoins move fast enough, cheaply enough and compliantly enough to feel ordinary? Monad has moved its stablecoin ambitions into a more practical lane by integrating with Rain's card infrastructure, giving Monad-based stablecoins a route into card spending through programs issued by Rain partners and accepted by Visa-affiliated merchants in more than 150 countries. That sounds like a distribution announcement. In one sense, it is. But the larger point is more interesting for founders watching the payments market. Crypto startups are no longer being judged only on wallets, yields, or token activity. They are being judged on whether their networks can plug into the messy, regulated, high-volume world where people actually pay for things. The May 13 announcement puts Monad into the same conversation that many high-performance chains have been trying to enter: stablecoins as settlement infrastructure. Rain brings the card layer, compliance stack and network relationships. Monad brings a fast EVM-compatible chain that has spent months arguing that low latency and deterministic finality matter if on-chain balances are going to be used at the point of sale. For the customer, the experience is supposed to look ordinary. A card is tapped, a merchant receives local currency through the existing card network, and the crypto complexity stays behind the curtain. That is the whole appeal. Most consumers do not want to think about block times, liquidity routing or wallet architecture when buying groceries or paying for travel. For the infrastructure companies, the challenge is much harder. Card networks are built around fast authorization and later settlement. Blockchains are built around public state, confirmation rules and finality. If those systems do not line up, issuers must prefund accounts, extend short-term credit or limit what users can do with their balances. That reduces the advantage stablecoins are supposed to bring. Monad has been making this argument directly. In a February post on stablecoin cards, the Monad team said card issuers need blockchains that can meet the timing assumptions of card authorization, not force financial companies to work around slow finality. Monad says its design targets roughly 400 millisecond block times and about 800 millisecond finality, which is the kind of claim that matters only if payment providers are willing to build on top of it. Rain gives that claim a more concrete route to market. Its platform is built for companies that want to launch stablecoin-backed cards, digital dollar accounts, on-ramps, off-ramps and wallet-linked spending without building the whole regulated stack themselves. Rain's website says it supports transactions in more than 150 countries and connects card programs to more than 150 million merchants globally. Rain is becoming a bridge for crypto startups. The timing also matters because Rain is not a small card experiment anymore. The company raised a $250 million Series C in January at a $1.95 billion valuation, with ICONIQ leading the round and investors including Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest and Endeavor Catalyst. Reports at the time said Rain had raised more than $338 million in total. That valuation tells you where investor attention has shifted. The speculative part of crypto still gets headlines, but the money is moving toward companies that make stablecoins usable inside existing payment systems. Rain is a B2B company, so its customers are wallets, fintechs, exchanges, neobanks and platforms that want card programs under their own brands. That makes it a pick-and-shovel business for the stablecoin economy. According to The Block, Rain became a Mastercard Principal Member on May 4, enabling it to offer stablecoin-powered credit and prepaid cards across Mastercard's network while keeping its existing Visa relationship. Fortune also reported that Rain and Mastercard are exploring stablecoin settlement, which is important because the card networks are not simply tolerating this market from the outside. They are trying to shape how it connects to their own rails. For crypto founders, that changes the build-versus-partner calculation. A startup with a stablecoin wallet can try to assemble issuing partners, compliance workflows, network access, treasury operations and fiat conversion itself. Or it can integrate with a platform like Rain and focus on the product layer. The second path is less glamorous, but it is often how financial infrastructure actually scales. Monad benefits from that same logic. Rather than trying to persuade merchants to accept a new payment method, it can let Rain partners route spending through networks merchants already use. That does not prove Monad is a dominant payments rail. It does show that the chain is being positioned as one of the settlement options behind a card experience customers already understand. The risk is that this becomes just another ecosystem badge. Crypto has no shortage of partnerships that add logos without adding transaction volume. The meaningful numbers to watch will be card spend, active programs, stablecoin balances on Monad, repeat usage and whether issuers actually use Monad for more than simple prefunded spending. That is why this announcement should be read with restraint. It is not proof that Monad has won stablecoin payments. It is a useful test of whether a fast blockchain, paired with a serious card infrastructure provider, can make on-chain money behave like ordinary money at checkout. If that works, the next generation of crypto startups will compete less on token excitement and more on who can make settlement faster, cheaper and nearly invisible.