Polygon

USDC on Polygon is now live for everyday merchant payments through AEON across the Philippines, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. Users can spend USDC at physical stores using familiar regional methods including QR codes.

AEON announced the expansion is "officially LIVE," enabling local spending with Polygon as the underlying chain.

Bybit's 85 million users can now check out with any token on any chain in one click after UquidCard launched a new Mini App on Bybit. Polygon OMS powers the orchestration behind the app, turning Bybit into a full shopping gateway where users can browse, pay, and complete orders.

Japanese convenience store Lawson ran its second stablecoin payment test at a POS register on Polygon, alongside payment provider Netstars. The demonstration tested USDC, USDT, and JPYC in-store via Netstars' "Stablecoin Pay" system.

The pilot marks continued real-world testing of Polygon for everyday point-of-sale payments in Japan. Coverage from neweconomy.

Polygon added fiat balances to its Open Money Stack (OMS), letting teams and users hold USD onchain ahead of time and convert to stablecoins or send fiat directly without a new wire each time. Because funds sit inside the stack, conversion clears 24/7 instead of waiting on banking hours.

Use cases include cross-border settlement from a single US balance, staging payout batches before deadlines, and moving a working slice into Treasury onchain. Users fund via the same fiat rails and can hold either dollar or stablecoin balances from anywhere. Early access is available to Polygon OMS users. Learn more in Polygon's blog.

Polygon highlighted its role supporting the Wyoming Stable Token Commission, which issues FRNT, the first fiat-backed and fully-reserved stable token issued by a U.S. public entity. The commission chose Polygon as one of its settlement chains.

• A profile of Stephanie Chan of WYO Stable details the story.

Building on its embedded-wallet rollout, Polygon reiterated that approved businesses can now create unlimited multichain wallets through the Open Money Stack, amplifying a BSCNews report. The wallets are non-custodial and support stablecoin balances inside existing apps.

Polygon announced approved businesses can now integrate unlimited embedded wallets through the Open Money Stack (OMS) at no cost, with crosschain routing from Polygon Trails included. The wallets are non-custodial, chain-agnostic, support stablecoins, and let users sign in with familiar methods without managing a seed phrase. Features include multiple authentication flows, smart sessions, recovery paths, private send, and yield earning. One click routes payments across 20+ blockchains with no separate bridge flow, and SDKs, APIs, and data services are bundled in.

Polygon was selected to participate in the Bank of England's Digital Pound Lab, working with NOBO and Dun & Bradstreet. Leveraging its Open Money Stack, Polygon will test what's possible for a digital pound and cross-border stablecoin settlement. One of the first tests will simulate cross-border settlement to enable open money movement onchain.

HashPort completed Japan's first convenience-store stablecoin payment at a POS register, demonstrated at Lawson. Shoppers showed a barcode from the HashPort Wallet to pay with JPYC, settled on Polygon in real time. The settlement chain's fees are a fraction of a cent, positioning Polygon as the default rail for moving the yen onchain.

Polygon showcased Polygon Trails, powered by the Polygon Open Money Stack, letting users spend any token on any chain in one click. A demo on the Uquid Card showed a MetaMask order with $Babydoge settling without manual swapping or bridging.

• Trails handles routing and bridging automatically across chains.