Japan Eyes Yen Stablecoin; Korea Banks Form Won-Peg Coalition
The week's Asia-crypto pulse runs through Japan and Korea: a yen-pegged stablecoin push, a won stablecoin issuer alliance, and a Coinbase INR rail all landed in the same seven-day window.
Stablecoin issuance, market share, depegs, and reserve backing across USDT, USDC, DAI, and other major stablecoins.
The week's Asia-crypto pulse runs through Japan and Korea: a yen-pegged stablecoin push, a won stablecoin issuer alliance, and a Coinbase INR rail all landed in the same seven-day window.
USDC lost $2.4 billion in circulating supply over the past 30 days, a contraction that ranks among the more significant…
A single wallet has spent more than $20M since June 1 accumulating 币安人生 at an average near $0.68, with another $4.7M still undeployed — a concentrated bid that defies the broader drawdown.
Meta moved nearly $3B in annual creator payouts onto USDC rails across 160+ countries, but the off-ramp from digital dollars to spendable local currency remains the friction the industry still hasn't…
The 30-hour leveraged ETH accumulation is already sitting on a 1.16 health factor — a $267 drop in ETH now liquidates the position.
Tether's USDT stablecoin is approaching Ethereum's total market capitalisation, a milestone that would mark the first…
Privacy-by-default with selective disclosure to auditors is the missing piece between on-chain settlement and treasury workflows that demand confidentiality.
STRC's depeg is the first stress test of a synthetic-dollar peg backed by a single equity — and it surfaces as BTC slides, putting a new corner of DeFi liquidity under the microscope.
Visa and Brale are exploring private stablecoin settlement for institutional payments, using Brale's SBC…
Chainalysis puts the off-label peptide trade past a $100M annual run rate — and the professionalized vendor tier is settling on stablecoin rails to hedge crypto-price risk.
Visa and fintech firm Brale are testing privacy-enabled settlement using SBC (Stablecoin-Backed Currency) on Canton…
Moscow's move to bar a 17-year-old researcher — and three other UK nationals plus a Washington Post reporter — elevates a ruble-pegged stablecoin built to dodge post-2022 sanctions from a niche token…
The brief depeg tracks a 4th STRC sub-par episode since August — each previous one mean-reverted, but the peg's sensitivity to preferred-equity volatility is now on the record for the wider market to…
A known dip-buyer just levered up on Ether via Spark, with the on-chain footprint suggesting conviction rather than rotation.
Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase are forming a consortium to launch a new stablecoin designed to compete directly…
Gold bug and long-time crypto skeptic Peter Schiff is doubling down on his bearish crypto thesis, claiming Tether's…
The three card-network giants already own the on-ramp rails — a shared stablecoin platform collapses the next layer of the payments stack into one consortium.
Revolut's newly licensed US bank is set to offer stablecoin services alongside traditional FDIC-insured deposit…
Tether is rolling out a Visa card that rewards holders in XAUT, its tokenized gold token, marking one of the first…
Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe are joining forces to launch a crypto stablecoin platform, marking one of the most…