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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

As Silicon Valley fantasizes about Web3, India leaps ahead on payments - Fortune

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For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s moguls have been promoting Bitcoin and blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, claiming these will transform global commerce. Instead, Bitcoin long ago died as a digital currency, becoming nothing more than an empty speculative asset with its value most recently plunging from $60,000 to less than $20,000. Meanwhile, as those same hypesters now promote a mystical Internet world called Web3, India is racing ahead and implementing what the crypto crowd had promised—with its Unified Payment Services (UPI).
A French company, Lyra Network, just announced it would deploy UPI. Entrance into the European Union is just the latest international move for UPI, an alternative payments system designed to be secure, reliable, and interoperable among different payment companies. Merchants in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines,...



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