Crypto made a comeback in 2025 – this time with banks testing the waters
On a cold Monday evening in December 2025, a corporate treasurer walked into a standing meeting with a request: “Can we settle this cross-border payment tonight instead of tomorrow?”
In any other year preceding 2025, the answer would’ve been a polite laugh. Settlement calendars have been carved into the industry’s muscle memory for decades: markets open, markets close, and money moves when the banking system says so. But in 2025, something structurally significant had changed.
The treasurer wasn’t asking for a miracle. She was asking for a stablecoin settlement.
And the response wasn’t a laugh. It was a yes.
In the blur of AI news cycles and political discourse throughout 2025, crypto staged a comeback; not…
