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USDe pays double-digit yield by going long spot crypto and shorting the same coin's perpetual futures. It works — until funding flips negative.
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.
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.
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.
Geopolitics punctured a fragile bounce, but the regulatory tape tells a deeper story about how Washington now frames digital assets.
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.
Bitcoin's 50% drawdown, a record ETF exodus, and a $3.8B sanctions bombshell collided in 24 hours. The bull case isn't dead, but its supports are gone.
Tokenized T-bills carry yield but settle slower and carry KYC baggage. USDT and USDC are faster and more flexible. Here is how to pick.
We rank the 10 largest USD stablecoins in 2026 by reserve transparency, audit frequency, and regulatory posture — not just market cap. Plus the depegging history most lists skip.
USDC and USDT face payment-stablecoin rules. BUIDL and OUSG look more like funds. The line between them is the fight.
WLFI raised hundreds of millions in a presale promising governance over a treasury tied to USD1. Here is what the token actually does, and what it does not.
War headlines, oil spikes, and a Korean circuit breaker hit the tape, yet Bitcoin held the low $60Ks. The read: geopolitics was priced long ago.
In the US, swapping USDC for USDT is a taxable event, even though the price barely moved. Most DeFi users are not tracking these swaps correctly.
Stablecoin issuance, lending flows, and Solana's expanding float point to real market plumbing, even as macro risk keeps speculation on a short leash.
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.
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.
Most retail holders cannot redeem stablecoins directly with the issuer. The dollar price works only above minimums, and the rules vary by token, jurisdiction, and bank partner.
A $16.7B whale bid collided with $4B in June ETF outflows, and the on-chain tape tells you exactly who is positioning for what next.
Iran shocks and a stalled bill stole the headlines, but the day’s real signal sat in payments, ETFs, and Japan quietly rewriting its crypto tax code.
USDT runs from the British Virgin Islands with quarterly attestations. USDC is a US-listed company with monthly attestations and a Big Four audit. Here is what each setup actually means.
Lina Haddad
Marco De Santis
Ethan Brooks