Tether cracks top-5 most active crypto investors in H1 2026
Seventeen deals in six months matches Tether's entire 2025 tally, with $750M concentrated in three bets: Replit, Whop, and Gold.com.
Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
Seventeen deals in six months matches Tether's entire 2025 tally, with $750M concentrated in three bets: Replit, Whop, and Gold.com.
The world's largest custody bank now lets institutions hold, mint and redeem Circle's USDC through a single regulated platform, formalising the bridge between Wall Street balance sheets and…
Kyiv just executed its first-ever seizure-to-state handoff of crypto, and the route the funds took into ARMA mirrors how Washington funds its own strategic reserve: criminal cases, not market buys.
The Aladdin endorsement slots Ethena into the operating layer US asset managers already use to move trillions, not just onto their watchlist.
The premium is a real-time gauge of India's chronic dollar-on-ramp shortage: the usual 3-4% spread just doubled as market makers stepped back after the ED raided six Bengaluru payment firms.
The pause marks a tactical pivot: with $1.15B raised but no fresh coins added, Strategy is signaling capital flexibility over accumulation, even as its 847,363 BTC stack sits untouched.
The new Digital Credit Capital Framework is the first time Strategy has formally authorized BTC monetization, with proceeds earmarked for the USD reserve, dividends and buybacks while preserving…
The rotation is the story: customers are pulling USDT off two of the world's largest venues and redeploying into native BTC, a flow mix that tracks with the broader move up in price.
The Basel-based institution's Annual Economic Report calls dollar-pegged tokens a threat to monetary sovereignty in emerging markets, and rules out decentralized networks as settlement layer for…
The BIS survey flip is the real signal: for the first time, the world's reserve banks treat dollar stablecoins as plumbing that strengthens the dollar's plumbing rather than a parallel challenge to…
The premium spike is the symptom; the crackdown on crypto remittance desks in Bengaluru and a July 2 parliamentary sit-down with the RBI are the supply shock behind it.
Indian rupee volatility and tightening USDT rails are pushing the on-shore premium to extreme territory, with local demand now revealing the depth of the country's de facto dollar shortage.
The Bank for International Settlements argues that pegged tokens trade and redeem like fund shares rather than money, and that their FX flows mirror deposit dollarization in vulnerable economies.
The PBOC's largest reverse-repo injection in a year lands the same week Bitcoin broke $60K and Fed-funds futures flipped to price in an October hike, putting global liquidity back on the table.
A top Korean brokerage stepping into the country's No. 2 crypto venue isn't just M&A noise; it lands weeks before FSC rules would cap exchange ownership and force a Bithumb Holdings unwind.
The local USDT-INR premium has more than doubled from its 3–4% norm in days, and the Enforcement Directorate's INR 250B money-transfer sweep just removed a popular remittance channel NRI users relied…
Even at $1T–$3T in market cap, the BIS argues wider stablecoin adoption would strain bank funding and credit while delivering only modest output gains.
The preliminary approval pairs with Ripple's existing EMI to passport payments and crypto across all 30 EEA states, but the ESMA conflict test on RLUSD issuance is the real gate the CSSF still has to…
The $3B USDC injection into Circle's first-party Wall Street blockchain signals a strategic pivot from Coinbase dependency, but the partnership strain could reshape stablecoin settlement rails.
SBI's JPYSC is the first trust-type yen stablecoin under the FSA's 2023 framework, and it lands the same week Korea, the Philippines, and Russia each moved on stablecoin rails.