A very different narrative is emerging in crypto today — and almost nobody is talking about it: payments are coming back. In the last 24 hours: • Western Union is launching a Solana-based stablecoin + payment card • Coinbase is expanding global stablecoin payments • Even traditional remittance companies are starting to integrate crypto rails This is a huge shift. For years, crypto moved away from its original use case (payments) and turned into a trading + speculation market. Now it’s quietly circling back. And this time, it’s not startups pushing it — it’s global financial infrastructure adopting it. That matters more than price. Because if crypto becomes the backend for payments: people won’t “invest” in it… they’ll just use it. And markets built on usage behave very differently than markets built on speculation. Feels like crypto is slowly returning to its original purpose — but with way bigger players involved.