Tether ex-CIO Heathcote sells part of 1.26% stake via PJT
The block hit the market weeks after Tether walked back a $20B raise and a $500B valuation pitch, with insiders now testing what secondary demand actually clears at.
Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
The block hit the market weeks after Tether walked back a $20B raise and a $500B valuation pitch, with insiders now testing what secondary demand actually clears at.
SBI VC Trade's registered accounts have crossed 2 million, doubling since 2025, as a weak yen pushes corporate Japan to spread reserves beyond cash and into crypto.
The block, run through PJT Partners, would let Richard Heathcote monetize a slice of the most valuable private stake in the stablecoin sector while the firm itself stays private.
Tether returns the largest stablecoin to its original 2014 home, this time over client-validated RGB rails rather than Omni, with UTEXO targeting a July go-live and Lightning in the wings.
The exploit rode a passed proposal through BonkDAO's own voting mechanism, a structural hit that turns governance itself into the attack surface.
Strategy's first major sell in months landed the same week stablecoin supply shrank for the second week running, while Bitmine kept stacking ETH through the cooldown.
Visa's onchain dashboard puts USDC near triple USDT's share and total adjusted volume past $8.8T in H1 2026, with Standard Chartered and BNY now building around Circle's rails.
The schedule spans everything from a $757M single-line cliff to routine mid-cap emissions, with $JTO and $APT the only large-cap names in the mix.
USDC took two-thirds of the $1.79T flow and Base narrowly edged Ethereum on-chain, the first time a Layer 2 has outpaced mainnet in Visa's adjusted-volume ranking.
BitGo's Bielik deal shows how the regulation is preserving user access on the surface while quietly rerouting control of stablecoins through regulated bank and custody channels.
RLUSD still drives the $844.6M core, but Valtorum's USDV has pushed to $39.3M and the mix now has more than one signature as XRPL grows against a shrinking global stablecoin market.
Standard Chartered and BNY are now minting and custodying USDC, while European lenders race to launch a euro alternative before dollar-backed tokens anchor the next settlement layer.
The $50B yield-bearing stablecoin race is being measured on the wrong axis; Artem Tolkachev argues venue acceptance as margin and collateral is the moat that actually compounds into 2027.
Five regional flashpoints in one week signal Asia's regulatory tightening is outpacing its adoption curve, with Korea delisting problem tokens, India paying double for dollar-pegged liquidity, and…
The reported stake would hand the world's largest exchange a position in the network behind the new Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase-partnered Open USD stablecoin as the sector pivots from issuance to…
The headline number is the split itself: $174B-plus of stablecoin value settling on one chain is a concentration event, not a market-share update.
Thomas Sy, head of multi-asset solutions at the $807B asset manager, argues blockchain's biggest institutional win is letting managers tailor portfolios to individual investors at scale, a use case…
Paolo Ardoino argues that record capex from the biggest AI labs is colliding with shrinking margins, delayed profits, and a fast-closing open-source gap.
The move strips the world's largest stablecoin from a 40M+ user super-app and signals how far EU compliance pressure is reshaping retail on-ramps beyond MiCA itself.
The exchange helped build USDC and now sits on the steering committee of a consortium whose stablecoin is positioned to compete with it, exposing a structural conflict that Circle cannot ignore.