The most important names in payments in 2026 have already been established.
My list to pay attention to:
M0
AEON
Stripe
Visa
Mastercard
Cypher
Gnosis Pay
Ready
Holyheld
Exa
Rain
MoonPay
Coinme
BVNK
Conduit
Bridge
Eco
Relay
Halliday
OpenFX
Zerohash
Hifi
Ethereum
Solana
Polygon
Arc
Arbitrum
Plasma
Noble
Celo
Aptos
Codex
Tempo
Ether Fi
Kast
Avici
Tuyo
Krak
These are the leaders in payments infra, on/off-ramp, crypto cards, and general payments focused chains.
This entire sector will balloon in value as stablecoins enter their generational expansion period.
Certain on this.