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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…
Stablecoins are the dollars of the crypto world — designed to hold steady value while moving at crypto speed. Here's how they work and where the risks hide.
Collins sees yield separated from the stablecoin unit itself and AI quietly settling global value in real time, a structural shift that could redraw how liquidity providers and payment rails get…
Tether continues to dominate the stablecoin landscape, commanding a 59% share of a market now valued at $320 billion…
Benjamin Cowen argues stablecoin dominance has broken out of a two-year base and is now backtesting it — a structure that historically took years to resolve and kept capital parked in stables rather…
Borrowing against tokenized gold without selling the underlying ounce mirrors BTC-collateralized lending and turns XAUT into a productive, not just store-of-value, asset.
Tether returns the largest stablecoin to its original 2014 home, this time over client-validated RGB rails rather than Omni, with UTEXO targeting a July go-live and Lightning in the wings.
Stablecoins have historically been a crypto-native affair. MoneyGram, Revolut and CACEIS jumping in this summer marks the category's clearest break from that origin story.
The move deepens a Tether-Ledn relationship that started with a strategic investment in November 2025, and turns a tokenized bullion asset into usable loan collateral on a book that has originated…
Including stablecoins, dominance has barely budged from its 58–61% range all year; excluding them, BTC share is already near 68% and pressing cycle highs.
RLUSD is a US dollar stablecoin issued by Ripple under a New York trust charter, live on XRP Ledger and Ethereum, and built for cross-border payments and tokenized assets.
DAI is the original decentralized stablecoin — born on Ethereum, governed by MakerDAO, backed by crypto collateral. Here is how it actually holds its peg, what changed with the USDS rebrand, and how it compares to USDT and USDC.
USDC, USDT and PYUSD all promise $1 redemption in their marketing. The fine print, minimums, and fees tell a different story.
x402 revives a dormant HTTP status code so AI agents can pay APIs in stablecoins like USDC per request. Here is how the protocol works and what's still unresolved.
Regulated stablecoins like USDC are often more surveilled than a bank account. Here is what actually stays private, and what does not.
XRP is a fast, low-cost digital asset built for moving value across borders. Here is what it does, how the XRP Ledger works, and the risks worth knowing.
Most fiat-backed stablecoins argue they are not securities, but the legal question is unsettled. Here's how the Howey test actually works in plain English.
The GENIUS Act lets offshore stablecoin issuers like Tether serve US users, but only after a Treasury finding. Here is who qualifies and who does not.
Bitcoin dominance is BTC's share of the total crypto market cap. Here is what it really tells you about market regimes, and where it gets misread.
PayFi is the label for stablecoin-based payment and credit rails, from on-chain lending to B2B settlement, that rebuilds traditional finance plumbing on faster rails.
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