Taiwan passes Virtual Asset Service Act, regulating crypto platforms
The third-reading passage hands the FSC licensing authority over crypto exchanges and stablecoin issuers, drawing the regulatory line Taipei spent five years drafting.
Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
The third-reading passage hands the FSC licensing authority over crypto exchanges and stablecoin issuers, drawing the regulatory line Taipei spent five years drafting.
A record $23.1T print and the largest single-month expansion since the 2021 stimulus wave point to liquidity conditions risk-on assets have been waiting on.
Treasury mints above $50B in fresh USDC supply this year already, and the cadence points squarely at institutional settlement demand rather than retail speculation.
The headline number is the income, but the absence of a divestiture or blind trust is the part ethics lawyers will read; crypto is now the President's largest disclosed revenue stream.
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The drawdown is a sentiment shock, not a structural one, and a top-rated analyst is still calling the post-print dip a buy, with management welcoming rather than fighting the new rival.
The selloff prices in a credible challenger, but analysts point to Paxos USDG's stalled traction and the structural difficulty of consortium economics as reasons to read the threat as overstated.
The 140-company list (Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, BNY, Coinbase, Google, Shopify, Solana) signals payments-rail buy-in, but the structural hook is consortium governance with shared reserve…
The launch lineup pulls in payments rails, an exchange, banks and tech firms under a single stablecoin that distributes reserve revenue back to members, a structural break from Tether's and Circle's…
The consortium reads as a TradFi validation bid for stablecoin rails rather than a competing token launch: the brand names signing on carry the regulated payments and asset-management flow the sector…
The bloc's unified market rules take effect across all 27 member states tomorrow, forcing venues and stablecoin issuers to either meet authorisation requirements or curtail product offerings.
The GENIUS Act scaffolds identity verification for issuers and centralized exchanges, but leaves the DeFi rails the dollar actually moves through untouched, an exemption the industry will spend the…
Circle's USDC has built its institutional business on reserve-income economics; Open USD's 140-partner consortium attacks that model directly by routing the T-bill yield back to distribution partners.
A stablecoin consortium anchored by Visa, Stripe and BlackRock signals the first serious push to make a tokenised dollar the default settlement layer for both crypto and traditional finance.
Of 244 crypto firms now authorized across the EEA, OKX's nine-service breadth is the clearest signal that compliance scale, not just compliance, is becoming the new European differentiator.
Roughly three in four crypto companies registered in Europe are expected to lose authorization under MiCA, cutting millions of EU users off from familiar venues within weeks.
Halving the prudential buffer below MiCA's 2% is a deliberate competitive lever: London wants issuer balance sheets to sit in the UK, and the BoE's quiet walk-back on per-holder caps clears the…
The rule applies to every transfer, not just the FATF's $1,000 ceiling, putting Australia among the stricter FATF-aligned jurisdictions and forcing AUSTRAC-registered exchanges to overhaul…