Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
A burn-and-mint model extends Circle's CCTP playbook to any participating issuer, betting that pre-funded liquidity pools cannot keep up with 350+ tokens and 30+ chains.
The GENIUS Act-compliant token lands on an L2 optimized for real-world payments, and gas abstraction lets users pay network fees directly in USAT.
The rating stays Outperform even as the target drops $50, framing Open USD as a sentiment shock rather than a structural threat to USDC's reserve income.
CME fed funds futures still price a 35% chance of a rate increase the afternoon of the decision, an unusual level of indecision that makes this a live, two-sided FOMC for risk.
Gold perps alone peaked at $7.77B in daily volume on Binance; the new European-style options, settled in USDT through ADGM-regulated Nest Exchange, layer on top of that demand with retail capped at…
Five of the six are euro-denominated, but dollar stablecoins still hold the capitalization lead, with USDC the dominant name on the list.
Mutual recognition would lower compliance costs for crypto and stablecoin providers, but adoption depends on common supervision and consumer-protection standards.
The portfolio gives Circle the largest US blockchain patent stack and a sharper negotiating edge as stablecoins move from crypto trading into settlement, treasury and mainstream payments.
The freeze turns a contract exploit into an exit-risk test: users must know whether funds remain withdrawable when an L2 bridge fails.
The complaint frames server freezes and internal trades as deliberate user-fund grabs timed to the orderly wind-down, putting BitMEX's exit liability under judicial review.
The IP spans foundational blockchain technology, banking, and supply chain verification, and directly underpins USDC, the Circle Payments Network, and the Arc blockchain.
The undisclosed-price deal vaults Circle past Bank of America and Advanced New Technologies as the largest US blockchain patent holder, with USDC, Arc, and AI-agent tooling as named deployment…
The list now sits at 309 licensed providers, signalling that Tier-1 US custodians and established crypto payment rails are treating MiCA compliance as a competitive moat rather than a checkbox.
The Singapore payments firm says customer funds are safe even as the onchain investigator tracking the bleed reports the figure has climbed $2.5M in days, with incoming deposits still being drained…
Russia's biggest bank is wiring crypto into its balance sheet under a law that legalizes broker-channel trading from Sept. 1, with licensed-intermediary rules tightening in July 2027.
An unchanged rate decision still tightens: €39.4B of June runoff, another €31.1B pencilled in through July, and European banks pulling back on credit leave Bitcoin competing for scarcer capital at…
Coinbase Institutional figures show entity-adjusted stablecoin volume running well above $1T a month while supply has only doubled since early 2024, a divergence that reframes the asset class as…
The William Blair read is that the resubmission is procedural, not strategic: Wise still does not look ready to issue stablecoins at scale, and the OCC's conditional-approval queue is getting crowded.
Two infrastructure plays land in a month where RLUSD's holders grew but monthly transfer volume fell 25%, highlighting the gap between owning the stablecoin and actually moving it.
A ranked snapshot of the top stablecoins by circulating supply, with USDT holding the dominant share despite tighter competition from USDC, Ethena's USDe, and bank-issued tokens.
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