Volt adds USDC wallet top-ups for Profee customers in the EU

Volt has launched a stablecoin checkout for Profee, allowing eligible European Union customers to top up Profee wallets with USDC and receive fiat balances inside the money transfer app. The companies said the service is live and is aimed at users who hold dollar-denominated stablecoins for cross-border payments, income or savings.

Under the arrangement, customers initiate a top-up from crypto wallets including MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, Phantom and Trust, according to the companies. Volt manages the wallet connection, on-chain confirmation, exchange rate process and fiat settlement to Profee, while Profee’s wallet balance can then be used for cross-border transfers, virtual card top-ups and other Profee services.

The integration gives Profee a direct route for customers who previously had to convert crypto balances through a bank account before funding their Profee wallet. The companies said this could serve freelancers paid in USDC, diaspora workers using crypto wallets for daily balances and consumers in markets where local currencies are volatile and dollar-linked stablecoins are used as a store of value.

Profee is a Cyprus-based electronic money institution focused on cross-currency money transfers. Volt described Profee as a Cyprus-headquartered, CBC-authorised service operating across more than 90 corridors.

Volt said its stablecoin pay-ins use the same real-time platform that supports its account-to-account payment services for merchants in more than 30 markets. The company said Profee’s ledger, treasury and reconciliation systems are unchanged, with know-your-customer, anti-money laundering and transaction-monitoring controls applied in line with traditional payment methods on Volt’s platform.

Stablecoin checkout typically requires merchants to add separate payment infrastructure for crypto acceptance, reconciliation and compliance. Volt said its model allows merchants to accept USDC through the same API, settlement flow and operational controls used for bank-based payments.

Steffen Vollert, Volt’s co-founder and chief executive, said regulated merchants should not need one stack for fiat and another for stablecoins. He said a meaningful share of senders now hold balances in USDC rather than bank accounts, and described Profee’s integration as using the same API, settlement flow and controls as Pay by Bank.

Artemis Rossides, general manager at Profee, said the company had planned to add stablecoin capability and needed a partner that could do so without weakening its regulated customer experience. Rossides said Profee launched with Volt in May 2025 for bank-account transfers and is now extending that partnership to make USDC an alternative way to top up Profee accounts in fiat.

The launch comes as stablecoin regulation develops in the United States and the European Union. The companies cited the GENIUS Act as establishing the first federal US framework for payment stablecoins, and said the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee on 14 May 2026 and was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar. In the EU, the stablecoin provisions of MiCA have applied since 30 June 2024, with the broader regulation fully applicable from 30 December 2024.

Vollert said Volt expects more merchants to offer stablecoin payments at checkout, including in remittances, retail, travel and automotive. He said established businesses increasingly view stablecoins as a payment rail for cross-border use cases, while regulation in the US and Europe is giving merchants more grounds to assess adoption.

This story draws on original reporting from Finextra Research.