Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
First major state-controlled lender to put ether and a foreign stablecoin on the collateral menu, but USDT's freeze authority makes the legal optics as newsworthy as the lending economics.
The request targets reporting friction, a practical test for whether Japan’s regulated stablecoin framework can support broader use in payments and finance.
The plan would test whether Russia's new framework can move BTC, ETH and USDT from trading venues into bank credit.
Reserve rules, issuer practice and BIS evidence align around a measurable short-term funding channel, not automatic demand for 10- to 30-year bonds.
The IMF's view gives stablecoins a broader financial-infrastructure case, but adoption will still be judged on safeguards and macro stability.
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…
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.
The Bank for International Settlements is putting its institutional weight behind tokenized bank deposits as the legitimate on-chain money rail, signalling a sovereign ceiling for stablecoins.
The $1.5T agentic-commerce forecast by 2030 hinges on a question crypto leaders still cannot agree on: one neutral "super currency" or thousands of tokens, and who owns the rails underneath both.
The bill was supposed to deliver clean stablecoin rules. If bank lobbyists carve out favorable provisions, pure-play issuers like Circle lose structural ground they can't recover on price alone.
The 49% stake, routed through StringZ Holding, gives WLF a clearer path to a national trust charter and legitimizes USD1, already the world's fourth-largest stablecoin at $4B in circulation.
South Korea's Mirae Asset is putting 1,500 trillion won in client assets behind a four-pillar push into crypto, stablecoins, real-world assets and security tokens, with profitability targeted by 2027.
The deal lands as USDC adds $1B in a week to a $73.9B supply base, putting a GENIUS-Act-compliant stablecoin on a 40,000-seat global sports stage while USDT stays mostly offshore.
The partnership gives USDC global sports visibility without linking the sponsorship to Chelsea payments, ticketing or a direct crypto offer in the UK.
SBI is stitching together a regulated Southeast Asian corridor for yen-denominated digital assets, and Ajaib's 20 million retail investors give the network a real on-the-ground funnel rather than…
Equity perpetuals carry a 70-times-larger underlying market than crypto and funding that rarely turns negative.
Aptos, Noble and Sui are the three chains Circle still labels V1-only, and the company isn't naming which exchanges, wallets or bridges still call the old contracts.
The increase points to crypto cards becoming a payments rail, moving stablecoins beyond exchange-balance conversion and closer to routine spending.
Two deals in one week, and a market with 16 million crypto users: Visa is positioning stablecoin rails at the center of one of Asia's most active digital asset economies.
Pairing a statutory innovation duty with a £40B systemic stablecoin cap and an Oct 2027 effective date, the move hardwires London into the global stablecoin race as the sector hits $303B.
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