The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is one of the three biggest art museums in the world.
Millions of visitors come every year, and most of its money comes from private gifts, not ticket sales.
Now the museum lets people give money with credit cards, normal cash, and even digital coins like bitcoin and stablecoins.
A well-known bar in Manhattan once became famous when a visitor bought a hamburger with bitcoin.
Until now, the bar accepted only bitcoin, but the owner is talking with payment companies to add stablecoins such as Tether.
In July, the United States passed the Genius Act, the first basic law for stablecoins.
Last year, people sent 27.6 trillion US dollars in dollar-linked stablecoins. This is more than Visa and Mastercard handle in one year.
In countries like Argentina and Kenya, local money often loses value quickly.
People there choose stablecoins to save, send money, and buy goods because the coins stay close to the US dollar.
The investment bank JP Morgan is testing its own stablecoin that is backed by customer deposits.
BNY Mellon, the world’s largest custodian bank, will keep the dollar stablecoin made by Ripple safe for clients.
A professor at New York University says traditional banks must adopt new technology or risk disappearing.