Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
The $1.5T agentic-commerce forecast by 2030 hinges on a question crypto leaders still cannot agree on: one neutral "super currency" or thousands of tokens, and who owns the rails underneath both.
The bill was supposed to deliver clean stablecoin rules. If bank lobbyists carve out favorable provisions, pure-play issuers like Circle lose structural ground they can't recover on price alone.
The 49% stake, routed through StringZ Holding, gives WLF a clearer path to a national trust charter and legitimizes USD1, already the world's fourth-largest stablecoin at $4B in circulation.
South Korea's Mirae Asset is putting 1,500 trillion won in client assets behind a four-pillar push into crypto, stablecoins, real-world assets and security tokens, with profitability targeted by 2027.
The deal lands as USDC adds $1B in a week to a $73.9B supply base, putting a GENIUS-Act-compliant stablecoin on a 40,000-seat global sports stage while USDT stays mostly offshore.
The partnership gives USDC global sports visibility without linking the sponsorship to Chelsea payments, ticketing or a direct crypto offer in the UK.
SBI is stitching together a regulated Southeast Asian corridor for yen-denominated digital assets, and Ajaib's 20 million retail investors give the network a real on-the-ground funnel rather than…
Equity perpetuals carry a 70-times-larger underlying market than crypto and funding that rarely turns negative.
Aptos, Noble and Sui are the three chains Circle still labels V1-only, and the company isn't naming which exchanges, wallets or bridges still call the old contracts.
The increase points to crypto cards becoming a payments rail, moving stablecoins beyond exchange-balance conversion and closer to routine spending.
Two deals in one week, and a market with 16 million crypto users: Visa is positioning stablecoin rails at the center of one of Asia's most active digital asset economies.
Pairing a statutory innovation duty with a £40B systemic stablecoin cap and an Oct 2027 effective date, the move hardwires London into the global stablecoin race as the sector hits $303B.
The policy signals that the UK wants stablecoin innovation and financial oversight to advance within a clearer digital-asset framework.
A 1-3% shift out of the $19.5T US deposit base into stablecoins would move $195B-$586B, pressuring bank margins before loan repricing even begins.
The rollout puts euro-denominated onchain access inside a mainstream retail app, with wider EEA distribution and other currency tokens planned.
The move would put a major US bank closer to the on-chain dollar economy, adding institutional weight to stablecoins as payment and settlement infrastructure.
The exploration puts stablecoins at the center of a banking and payments contest over trust, compliance and distribution.
The move puts euro liquidity, reserve backing and compliance at the center of fintech-led stablecoin adoption.
The partnership links planned stablecoin pilots to Shinhan’s bank and card businesses as South Korea advances a wider framework for stablecoins, VASP licensing and crypto ETFs.
Banks are now building what they spent a year arguing crypto shouldn't run: a permissioned chain for stablecoins and tokenized deposits, governed by the industry itself.
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