On October 27, 2026, Circle and ACI Worldwide announced a Colombia pilot pairing Circle's USDC infrastructure with ACI Worldwide's cloud-based ACI Connetic platform to enable stablecoin settlement alongside traditional payment systems

Tokens pegged to stable value, usually the US dollar, spanning issuers and reserves, depegs, and adoption by banks and payment networks.

Using crypto and stablecoins to pay for things, from payment cards and merchant checkout to payroll, remittances and cross-border settlement.