{"id":593910,"date":"2026-05-04T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=811665"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:35:16","slug":"remittance-giant-western-union-ditches-legacy-rails-for-its-own-stablecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/remittance-giant-western-union-ditches-legacy-rails-for-its-own-stablecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittance Giant Western Union Ditches Legacy Rails for Its Own Stablecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mahalo-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Remittance Giant Western Union Ditches Legacy Rails for Its Own Stablecoin\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Issued by Anchorage Digital, the Solana-based dollar-pegged stablecoin comes to revitalize the remittances and settlements processes at Western Union, which rely largely on legacy rails that trap idle liquidity to function properly. Key Takeaways: Western Union launched its 1st stablecoin, USDPT, on Solana with Anchorage Digital Bank. Solana\u2019s 24\/7 settlement capabilities free up idle liquidity [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued by Anchorage Digital, the Solana-based dollar-pegged stablecoin comes to revitalize the remittances and settlements processes at Western Union, which rely largely on legacy rails that trap idle liquidity to function properly. Key Takeaways: Western Union launched its 1st stablecoin, USDPT, on Solana with Anchorage Digital Bank. Solana\u2019s 24\/7 settlement capabilities free up idle liquidity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-593910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}