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The split inside the ECB — Beau backing Qivalis and a public-private euro stablecoin push, Lagarde holding the line on a 2029 CBDC — exposes how fast dollar-pegged stablecoins are reshaping Europe's…
Europeans run 38% of global stablecoin volume against 0.3% euro supply — and Lagarde's camp just blocked the two levers (looser MiCA liquidity, ECB backstop access) that could have closed the gap.
The vote ends three years of friction between the ECB and commercial banks, and positions the digital euro as Europe's answer to dollar-pegged stablecoins and Visa and Mastercard's grip on eurozone…
EURC and EURI are MiCA-compliant euro stablecoins, but most volume still runs through USD-pegged tokens like USDC and USDT in Europe.
Circle's EURC and Stables Labs' EURe are the two euro stablecoins European users can actually trade. Here's how MiCA's EMT rules change the picture.
USDe pays double-digit yield by going long spot crypto and shorting the same coin's perpetual futures. It works — until funding flips negative.
As Washington locks down stablecoins and bans a retail CBDC, MiCA forces smaller players out. The map of who clears dollars is being redrawn in real time.
A retail-bank doorway opens in Frankfurt while BlackRock quietly bleeds BTC, and the SEC-CFTC pact lands on the same day the dollar's rivals are reorganising around it.
Ethena's USDe pays yield through ETH perp funding rates, not bank deposits. The mechanism is clever but the trade has real failure modes that can collapse headline APY.
Sparkassen opening BTC and ETH to millions of deposants is the slow-burn story of the week, and the tape barely noticed.
A memecoin's 96% collapse meets a German banking rail and an ETF exodus. On-chain, the signal is the gap between utility and pure speculation.
USDC and USDT face payment-stablecoin rules. BUIDL and OUSG look more like funds. The line between them is the fight.
US spot ETFs bled $4B in June while Tokyo, Seoul and Luxembourg quietly absorbed the next wave of structural adoption, drawing a sharper line between retreat and construction.
Capital is rerouting from a tightening EU and a bleeding US ETF complex toward Asia, stablecoins, and a maturing institutional plumbing layer.
A Brent spike above $90, fresh Tokyo clarity, and a $105M ETH ETF day redraw the East-West rails just as Western risk-off sets in.
June ends with $1.79B out of spot BTC ETFs, a yen carry unwind, and BNY minting USDC inside custody. Two markets are pricing the same moment very differently.
Spot ETF outflows crossed $6B while BlackRock quietly rotated coins to Coinbase Prime. The bid is gone; the conviction isn't.
Open USD lands with BlackRock, Visa and Stripe behind it. Circle takes a 16% hit. Behind the launch, USDC mints and burns keep telling the real story.
Whales pulled $478M of ETH off exchanges as oil spiked and Bitcoin slid under $64K on Iran strikes, exposing a diverging risk read between the two majors.
USDC issuance, a $53B PayPal bid, and cross-border rules all arrived on the same day. The through-line isn’t CPI. It’s the rails.
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