ASTER Buybacks Burn 99% of Daily Fees Under New Tokenomics
The mechanism is engineered to compress supply from 8B to 3B while routing every buyback back to veASTER stakers — a self-funding demand loop tied directly to platform revenue.
Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
The mechanism is engineered to compress supply from 8B to 3B while routing every buyback back to veASTER stakers — a self-funding demand loop tied directly to platform revenue.
The bid is being built off-chain while spot ETH sits at $1,750 — 289% above-baseline stablecoin inflows meet a shrinking exchange float, and the coiled positioning argues for a fast move when…
Matt Hougan blames attention drift to AI plus a maturing investor base now reaching for stablecoins and tokenization, even as RIA demand for Bitcoin hits record highs.
Spot trading is the part of Coinbase Wall Street already models; derivatives, stablecoins and AI rails are the parts they don't yet — and Tuesday's product salvo was about convincing analysts the…
The buyback is a confidence vote, not a turnaround — the equity is still trading near $6.07 against an $18 January IPO, and rivals Kraken and Consensys have already pulled their listings.
The 130-page proposal treats permitted stablecoin issuers like banks under the Bank Secrecy Act — the structural win legitimizers want, with secondary-market KYC flagged as the open fight.
The same card network crypto was built to bypass is now the on-ramp for stablecoin spending — a structural inversion of the original disruption thesis, and a sign that rails beat ideology for…
The proposal wires stablecoin issuers into the Bank Secrecy Act alongside banks — and the dissent from Michael Barr signals the harder fight is in the secondary market, not the issuer.
The Zug-based firm says it tracks 99.41% of all stablecoin payments and protects over $30B in customer assets — signals that the compliance layer beneath the stablecoin stack is starting to attract…
BTC up 25,838 and ETH up 382,619 in a month, while USDT slid 1.3% — net deposits on the largest venue by users are still positive in the middle of 2026.
The contradiction cuts to the heart of stablecoin governance: when an issuer can freeze funds, who decides whose funds get frozen, and on what timeline?
The shutdown is small in dollar terms — aUSDT's $1.27M cap is a rounding error against USDT — but it continues Tether's pattern of pruning peripheral stablecoins to concentrate on its core dollar…
With the stablecoin market at $320B and projected to hit $4T by 2030, Fidelity and State Street are racing to capture the reserve-management mandate the GENIUS Act just created.
The 10x valuation step-up from seed to Series A signals that institutional capital is treating stablecoin payment rails as a distinct infrastructure category, not a DeFi adjacency.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, led by Republican Cynthia Lummis, is pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to…
Squid has integrated Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin into its cross-chain routing layer, letting users swap into and out of…
Ripple has invested in Flutterwave's Series E funding round, valuing the African payments company at $3.2 billion…
USDT has climbed roughly 16% against the bolivar on Venezuela's local P2P market over the past 30 days, moving from…
Stablecoin dominance has nearly doubled since the crypto market's September 2025 peak, but the supply behind that surge…
State Street Investment Management on Tuesday launched the State Street Stablecoin Reserves Money Market Fund, a…