Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
Beyond the $53B price tag, a Stripe-PayPal merger would consolidate merchant rails, 440M consumer wallets, and three competing stablecoin stacks under one roof, with antitrust and the new US…
Even if no law is broken, the optics of a sitting president with active equity positions endorsing those same names on a public platform raise conflict-of-interest and market-manipulation questions…
The real fight isn't the platform launch; it's the Open USD revenue-share model that returns nearly all reserve income to distributors, a structural pressure point on Circle's USDC economics.
The dollar number is absent, but the reach is the point: Visa is wrapping stablecoin minting, custody and movement into one enterprise rail sitting on top of the world's largest card network.
The $47.1B AUM milestone lands just over a year after launch and cements IBIT as the dominant venue for institutional spot BTC exposure in the US.
A $1.9T legacy asset manager crossing into actively managed crypto ETFs widens the institutional funnel beyond spot BTC and ETH products.
Four years after FTX, the bill would force U.S. crypto exchanges, brokers, dealers and custodians to register under federal rules covering custody, segregation and disclosure.
The world's largest payments network is building its own stablecoin rail for banks and merchants, and it is picking an open-standard rival to USDC as the anchor asset on day one.
Coinbase is restructuring Base around trading, payments and tokenized assets after losing ground to Robinhood's new layer-2, whose first $3.1B week was 80% memecoin trading.
Japan's largest online brokerage is plugging into the largest tokenized-RWA network, and the choice of JPYSC for settlement means the yen stablecoin becomes the default rail before any shares change…
Keyrock picked up BlockFills' institutional trading tech, client book, and regulatory licenses for a fraction of peak valuations, consolidating market-making depth post-crash.
The brokerage already clears or custodies about 94% of tokenized U.S. stocks, making the raise a bid to own the settlement layer before Coinbase and Kraken close in.
The pairing brings together one of DeFi's largest RWA issuers and one of Japan's deepest financial conglomerates, with the JPYSC stablecoin as the settlement rail.
CNN's review of post-purchase Truth Social activity raises the canonical insider-trading question the Constitution leaves unresolved: how much of the presidency's market-moving voice is the same…
The payments network is going direct: a stablecoin rail built into the Visa stack, not a one-off bank partnership, brings digital-dollar settlement to the existing merchant base.
Bitwise's 59-point gap between listed crypto companies and the assets themselves points to an industry whose earnings no longer need a bull market to grow.
The expansion triples TSMC's US capex footprint and locks in three new fabs plus an R&D center, deepening the US-Taiwan semiconductor decoupling beyond any previous commitment.
Just 61 rounds closed in June, down 31.5% from May and 52% below the post-2020 monthly average, the weakest month for venture capital into crypto since November 2020.
The distribution deal through Fireblocks Earn matters more than the vaults themselves: idle stablecoin balances sitting in custody are the largest unmonetised pool in crypto, and Galaxy just put a…
A direct military strike on three US-hosted bases pulls geopolitical risk back to the front of the macro tape, and Bitcoin is reacting like a risk asset in the first hours.
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