{
  "story_id": "e997eae788f1e541a295695b25f4ee10",
  "desk": "drm3",
  "revision": 2,
  "published_at": "2026-09-03T20:43:28.000Z",
  "content_hash": "7ec9a87e86215c78342b5750e11f9f3a89dedf72b93949d9ca761f1d04f9a887",
  "hash_basis": "sha256 over `headline\\ndek\\nprose`, plus `\\n` + the canonical citations JSON when any source is placed, plus `\\n#blog` for blogs",
  "basis": {
    "headline": "Diameter Pay Raises $10M Series A to Expand Stablecoin Infrastructure",
    "dek": "Diameter Pay secures $10 million Series A funding to expand its stablecoin and cross-border payment infrastructure.",
    "prose": "Diameter Pay raised $10 million in a Series A funding round to expand its banking, payments, and digital asset capabilities. [^1]\n\nDiameter Pay announced a $10 million Series A financing round co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with participation from SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital, and BitRock Capital. [^2][^5] Diameter Pay provides payment infrastructure to banks, FinTech companies, and digital asset exchanges, offering access to U.S. dollar virtual accounts, domestic and international payment rails, and stablecoin on- and off-ramps. [^3] Founder and CEO David Lighton stated that Diameter Pay was bootstrapped before the Series A round, which began in April and closed in July in a single tranche. [^4]\n\nCharlie Sandor, Partner at CMT Digital, said that stablecoins are transforming how dollars move globally but do not replace the need for trusted access to the US banking system, and that Diameter provides that connective layer. [^6]",
    "cited": "[{\"statement\":\"Diameter Pay raised $10 million in a Series A funding round to expand its banking, payments, and digital asset capabilities.\",\"source\":\"PYMNTS.com\",\"instrument\":\"News\",\"claim_key\":null,\"published_at\":\"2026-09-03T20:43:28.000Z\",\"publisher_count\":1,\"sources\":[\"PYMNTS.com\"]},{\"statement\":\"Diameter Pay announced a $10 million Series A financing round co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with participation from SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital, and BitRock Capital.\",\"source\":\"Cision PR Newswire\",\"instrument\":\"News\",\"claim_key\":null,\"published_at\":\"2026-09-03T17:00:00.000Z\",\"publisher_count\":1,\"sources\":[\"Cision PR Newswire\"]},{\"statement\":\"Diameter Pay provides payment infrastructure to banks, FinTech companies, and digital asset exchanges, offering access to U.S. dollar virtual accounts, domestic and international payment rails, and stablecoin on- and off-ramps.\",\"source\":\"PYMNTS.com\",\"instrument\":\"News\",\"claim_key\":null,\"published_at\":\"2026-09-03T20:43:28.000Z\",\"publisher_count\":1,\"sources\":[\"PYMNTS.com\"]},{\"statement\":\"Founder and CEO David Lighton stated that Diameter Pay was bootstrapped before the Series A round, which began in April and closed in July in a single tranche.\",\"source\":\"PYMNTS.com\",\"instrument\":\"News\",\"claim_key\":null,\"published_at\":\"2026-09-03T20:43:28.000Z\",\"publisher_count\":1,\"sources\":[\"PYMNTS.com\"]},{\"statement\":\"The funding round was co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with other investors including SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital, and BitRock Capital.\",\"source\":\"PYMNTS.com\",\"instrument\":\"News\",\"claim_key\":null,\"published_at\":\"2026-09-03T20:43:28.000Z\",\"publisher_count\":1,\"sources\":[\"PYMNTS.com\"]},{\"statement\":\"Charlie Sandor, Partner at CMT Digital, said that stablecoins are transforming how dollars move globally but do not replace the need for trusted access to the US banking system, and that Diameter provides that connective layer.\",\"source\":\"Cision PR Newswire\",\"instrument\":\"News\",\"claim_key\":null,\"published_at\":\"2026-09-03T17:00:00.000Z\",\"publisher_count\":1,\"sources\":[\"Cision PR Newswire\"]}]",
    "kind": "news"
  },
  "receipt_verify": "Ed25519 over the dot-joined string `slice_hash.cursor_from.cursor_to.view.view_version.row_count`; public_key and sig are base64url of the raw 32-byte key / 64-byte signature",
  "receipt": null,
  "receipt_note": "this revision predates receipt-keeping (before v0.37.0); the filed row lives in the record",
  "generation_chain": {
    "wire": {
      "stream": "fountain_news",
      "story_id": "e32877b0113178b15104b302f53feccf",
      "thread_id": "8e62c5104b5327da7d2f29a17b5abdf7",
      "thread_label": "David Lighton",
      "novelty": "UPDATE",
      "content_hash": "522c700016532bf66581189f31a11f2840efefe7d4151558ec62e4b869d34291",
      "last_published_at": "2026-09-03T20:43:28.000Z",
      "read_receipt": {
        "slice_hash": "3528f573095b38c4abfe7176deb5e225e82c1af3c7dc91680410a8795d94b55d",
        "cursor_from": "eyJ0cyI6IjIwMjYtMDktMDNUMjA6MTc6MDAuMDAwMDAwWiIsImlkIjoiNWI1MmIxMjk3M2NhODBmY2NiMjk5ZDgyMWQ5MjljZmEiLCJ2IjoiMSJ9",
        "cursor_to": "eyJ0cyI6IjIwMjYtMDktMDNUMjA6NTA6MzEuMDAwMDAwWiIsImlkIjoiNTFkOTVlNTZjYmQ0MGI5YmU1MWVjMjY3ZjU4ZWI2YWEiLCJ2IjoiMSJ9",
        "view": "v_fountain_news",
        "view_version": "1",
        "row_count": 100,
        "window_days": 3,
        "bytes_scanned": 12166856,
        "credits": 8,
        "price_per_100_rows": 8,
        "sig": "4tF4JvaY1J1xDk_C-HWRYlI54NluY8U5eQ9TCeC5PhJa45GX2XouLN6UhzZTcJYQ7Ko6oaJw6PLT38LzBV4_Aw",
        "public_key": "bMUigy8O0jOnBxQ4Sc-5lwhIZ8LQVAhxMbR7qESVuUE",
        "signer_path": "lakehouse/data-extract/v1",
        "alg": "Ed25519",
        "signed": true
      },
      "compose": 3,
      "recomposed_at": "2026-09-05T20:10:45.465Z"
    },
    "written_at": "2026-09-04T06:39:53.649Z"
  },
  "cited_facts": [
    {
      "n": 1,
      "statement": "Diameter Pay raised $10 million in a Series A funding round to expand its banking, payments, and digital asset capabilities.",
      "source": "PYMNTS.com",
      "instrument": "News",
      "claim_key": null,
      "occurred_at": null,
      "published_at": null
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "statement": "Diameter Pay announced a $10 million Series A financing round co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with participation from SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital, and BitRock Capital.",
      "source": "Cision PR Newswire",
      "instrument": "News",
      "claim_key": null,
      "occurred_at": null,
      "published_at": null
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "statement": "Diameter Pay provides payment infrastructure to banks, FinTech companies, and digital asset exchanges, offering access to U.S. dollar virtual accounts, domestic and international payment rails, and stablecoin on- and off-ramps.",
      "source": "PYMNTS.com",
      "instrument": "News",
      "claim_key": null,
      "occurred_at": null,
      "published_at": null
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "statement": "Founder and CEO David Lighton stated that Diameter Pay was bootstrapped before the Series A round, which began in April and closed in July in a single tranche.",
      "source": "PYMNTS.com",
      "instrument": "News",
      "claim_key": null,
      "occurred_at": null,
      "published_at": null
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "statement": "The funding round was co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with other investors including SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital, and BitRock Capital.",
      "source": "PYMNTS.com",
      "instrument": "News",
      "claim_key": null,
      "occurred_at": null,
      "published_at": null
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "statement": "Charlie Sandor, Partner at CMT Digital, said that stablecoins are transforming how dollars move globally but do not replace the need for trusted access to the US banking system, and that Diameter provides that connective layer.",
      "source": "Cision PR Newswire",
      "instrument": "News",
      "claim_key": null,
      "occurred_at": null,
      "published_at": null
    }
  ],
  "note": "A signature proves who filed this and that it has not changed since. It never makes a claim true. The dates on cited_facts (occurred_at, published_at) are the forge's, joined at read time; they are not part of the signed basis above."
}