{"id":686042,"date":"2025-08-20T03:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sofi-to-become-first-us-bank-to-integrate-bitcoin-lightning-uma\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:50:19","slug":"sofi-to-become-first-us-bank-to-integrate-bitcoin-lightning-uma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sofi-to-become-first-us-bank-to-integrate-bitcoin-lightning-uma\/","title":{"rendered":"SoFi to become first US bank to integrate Bitcoin Lightning, UMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDgvMDE5OGM0NTgtZmYyZi03NGE0LTg2ZGEtOGNkMjNjYWJiNDhh.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>SoFi Technologies will leverage the Bitcoin network under a partnership with Lightspark to better compete in the $740 billion global remittance market.<\/p>\n<p><p>Digital bank SoFi Technologies is set to become the first US bank to leverage the Bitcoin network and Universal Money Address \u2014 allowing Americans, Mexicans, and others to send money through the Lightning Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SoFi partnered with Bitcoin (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) payments infrastructure Lightspark to launch its blockchain-powered international money transfer service, which will go live later this year, starting in Mexico, SoFi <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250819638580\/en\/SoFi-Partners-with-Lightspark-to-Power-Blockchain-Enabled-International-Money-Transfers\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"null\">said<\/a> in an announcement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many SoFi members who regularly send money to loved ones internationally, the ability to quickly transfer money at low cost isn\u2019t just a convenience, it\u2019s a meaningful improvement to their everyday financial lives,\u201d SoFi CEO Anthony Noto <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anthonynoto\/status\/1957810987412652252\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"null\">said<\/a> on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Digital bank SoFi Technologies is set to become the first US bank to leverage the Bitcoin network and Universal Money Address \u2014 allowing Americans, Mexicans, and others to send money through the Lightning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-08\/0198c458-ff2f-74a4-86da-8cd23cabb48a","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,114499,75029,74889,77388,74355,117,70504,67874],"class_list":["post-686042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-david-marcus","tag-lightning-network","tag-payments","tag-remittances","tag-adoption","tag-business","tag-mexico","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}