Stablecoins Could Speed Cross-Border Payments, IMF Says
The IMF's view gives stablecoins a broader financial-infrastructure case, but adoption will still be judged on safeguards and macro stability.
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The IMF's view gives stablecoins a broader financial-infrastructure case, but adoption will still be judged on safeguards and macro stability.
Strategy's cost basis is a closely watched mark-to-market line, making the crossover a visible test of the corporate Bitcoin treasury model.
The 2% to 6.5% rate jump and a $93,500 knock-in barrier sitting roughly 20% above current BTC expose the structural cost of converting a cheap short-cycle facility into a longer, more expensive one.
The decades-old messaging network just proved it can compete on speed. With stablecoins and tokenized securities racing toward $9T by 2030, Swift's first live blockchain settlement is its bid not to…
Strategy's balance-sheet shift matters beyond one purchase: with almost four years of preferred-dividend coverage, new capital is likely to fund BTC buys and STRC buybacks.
Even with a $65K penalty and 3-year ban, the case makes prediction-market insider trading an active CFTC enforcement priority, and exchanges that flag trades get publicly credited for cooperation.
The proposal names no specific token, but shifts the compliance burden onto US exchanges. Fail the diligence bar, and stablecoins like USDT risk losing access to US customers by July 2028.
CoinMarketCap's top 10 was unchanged between 15:00 UTC on 29 Aug and 15:00 UTC on 30 Aug 2026, while the top-100…
The weekend tape was orderly on the DEX layer, but Coinbase's onchain clock now runs continuously while the underlying equities still settle on business days.
The carry channel had been shut since February; the funding rebound is reopening the cleanest market-neutral yield in crypto, with hedge funds on CME now flipping net long as the directional overlay…
The snapshot highlights sharp dispersion among micro-cap tokens, with gains and losses concentrated in a few names.
Treasury's bond buybacks ease a few old issues, but $739B of new issuance drains reserves first. Bitcoin waits at the back of that pipeline while the TGA rebuilds toward $1.05T by late October.
A grand jury subpoena reframes a filing correction as a stress test for the entire life-insurer private-credit model, where prices, ratings and counterparties all run through affiliates.
The denial leaves the party behind the activity unidentified and puts provenance at the center of risk around Trump-branded meme coins.
The breach wasn't in user-controlled wallets. It hit the third-party contract holding card-loaded funds, the exact handoff crypto-card spending depends on as volumes triple.
Two prediction-market insider settlements in two months, both generated by Kalshi referrals, and the second lands the same week the Ninth Circuit knocked Kalshi back in its Nevada preemption fight.
The page going dark does not mean reserves disappeared, but it does strip the one piece of evidence retail and institutional clients could check every day, just four years after FTX.
The $3B gap between operating and contracted AI cloud revenue is the bull case the market has to underwrite. Financing costs of up to 9% don't pause while delivery slips.
The number matters less than its staying power: persistent deposits and activity would turn a fast inflow into a durable adoption signal.
The crypto funding mechanic just landed inside a five-year, cash-settled, CFTC-regulated equity-index future. The launch volume already cooled: $104M near Aug. 25-26 fell to $7.2M by Aug. 28.