Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
1.389 billion USDT moved on Binance P2P in Venezuela over a single month, equivalent to roughly 75% of national oil export revenue, a dollar-substitution signal that reaches past the crypto page.
The 2028 effective date keeps the headline rate from being retroactive, but the reclassification itself gives XRP and other tokens the legal status institutional desks need to underwrite Japan…
The first institutional round in Crypto.com's ten-year history lands as CEX volumes just snapped a five-month slide and tokenized real-world assets hit a record $311B in June perpetual volume.
Beyond the $53B price tag, a Stripe-PayPal merger would consolidate merchant rails, 440M consumer wallets, and three competing stablecoin stacks under one roof, with antitrust and the new US…
The real fight isn't the platform launch; it's the Open USD revenue-share model that returns nearly all reserve income to distributors, a structural pressure point on Circle's USDC economics.
The dollar number is absent, but the reach is the point: Visa is wrapping stablecoin minting, custody and movement into one enterprise rail sitting on top of the world's largest card network.
The world's largest payments network is building its own stablecoin rail for banks and merchants, and it is picking an open-standard rival to USDC as the anchor asset on day one.
Japan's largest online brokerage is plugging into the largest tokenized-RWA network, and the choice of JPYSC for settlement means the yen stablecoin becomes the default rail before any shares change…
The brokerage already clears or custodies about 94% of tokenized U.S. stocks, making the raise a bid to own the settlement layer before Coinbase and Kraken close in.
The payments network is going direct: a stablecoin rail built into the Visa stack, not a one-off bank partnership, brings digital-dollar settlement to the existing merchant base.
Bitwise's 59-point gap between listed crypto companies and the assets themselves points to an industry whose earnings no longer need a bull market to grow.
The investment slots Tether deeper into Latin American fintech distribution on the same day Allianz X closed a $197M round first led in March, a structural bet on stablecoin rails across the region.
The headline is the Fed drawing a line; the detail is Warsh declining to rule out support if a stablecoin or crypto run actually materialises.
The equity check is small, but it is the third LatAm deal in three months and follows a Q1 profit of $1.04B; Tether is converting USDT reserve yield into a regional banking footprint while…
The freeze ties up only a slice of the $475M Tether has now blocked from the Central Bank of Iran, but it hands every venue a ready-made address list to screen against.
Card rails keep the macro layer, stablecoins take the micro tier, and Visa expects hybrid agentic flows rather than a winner-take-all shift on either rail.
The framework puts one of East Africa's larger economies on the path to a formal rulebook for digital assets, where most activity today runs in regulatory grey zones.
Fink told CNBC leverage has been flushed out and Bitcoin now trades with more stability, while BlackRock's CFO lays out tokenized Treasuries, iShares, and stablecoins inside digital wallets.
The attacker converted the full haul into 12,084 ETH at ~$1,966 and routed most of it through Tornado Cash, the laundering pattern that keeps drawing OFAC's attention.
The surprise rate increase is the BoK's first in more than three years and lands as Asian risk-off sentiment deepens, with rate-sensitive crypto and regional equities bracing for tighter liquidity.
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