Corey Cooper
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Corey Cooper
@corey__cooper
Technologist that loves building products. Currently, working at @Circle as Developer Relations and Ecosystem Marketing Manager for 🇺🇸









BREAKING: 🇺🇸Square to enable bitcoin lightning payments as default for over 4 million merchants ⚡️ Square will auto-enable Bitcoin payments for all eligible partners starting March 30, 2026. A Terms of Service notice was sent to merchants registered with Square's POS solutions. This means over four million businesses using Square could become Bitcoin accepting merchants overnight. Up until now, business owners had to manually activate bitcoin payments and decide whether to auto-convert to USD or keep in BTC. The rollout is part of Block’s push to integrate Bitcoin payments across its ecosystem including CashApp, leveraging the Lightning Network instant, low-cost transactions. Sellers will still have the option to disable the feature or automatically convert Bitcoin to USD at the point of sale. @Square







Crosschain settlement is still too slow for great product UX. With Circle Gateway, developers can unify USDC balances across chains and enable crosschain payments from a single Gateway balance. Less pre-funding. Less rebalancing. More time shipping. Docs: developers.circle.com/gateway



1/8 We actually ran it: a real Bitaxe (ESP32-class) device paying 0.001 USDC every 2 minutes to submit verifiable telemetry — using TLAY BoAT x x402 x Circle Gateway + Nanopayments.




