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The licenses are the unglamorous plumbing — but a zero-fee bank-to-stablecoin ramp into Aave's $14B lending market finally gives the protocol a path around crypto-native leverage cycles.
The OpenAI Foundation CFO appointment is the headline grab, but the substantive beat is Evernorth's 473M-XRP treasury and Ripple's 126.79M anchor commitment ahead of a Q2 2026 SPAC debut under ticker…
The trust would trade on Nasdaq under generic listing standards, putting Worldcoin alongside Solana, XRP, and Litecoin in the queue of single-asset altcoin ETF applications now in front of the…
The Luxembourg-issued CASP authorization is the first of its kind for a major US-headquartered crypto firm, letting Ripple passport regulated XRP and stablecoin services into every EU member state…
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.
ERC-4337 is an Ethereum standard that turns every wallet into a programmable smart contract, killing seed phrases and letting someone else pay your gas. Here's how it actually works.
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.
ETHFI gives the protocol's governance token a fee claim, but most yield comes from active AVS selection, and slashing cuts through LRT holders first.
Stablecoins sit in a regulatory gray zone. The SEC sees securities hooks, the CFTC sees derivatives hooks, and two recent events moved the lines.
EURC and EURI are MiCA-compliant euro stablecoins, but most volume still runs through USD-pegged tokens like USDC and USDT in Europe.
Issuing a stablecoin legally means picking one of four license types: an EMI, a MiCA authorization, a state money transmitter, or a new federal charter. Each has its own capital, banking, and reporting trapdoors.
DTCC tokenization, a $96M ETH ETF day, and a quiet CPI miss collide with stablecoin margin compression and a $23M RWA exploit.
Capital is rerouting from a tightening EU and a bleeding US ETF complex toward Asia, stablecoins, and a maturing institutional plumbing layer.
Intents let crypto users declare an outcome instead of signing a transaction. ERC-7683 standardizes that promise across chains like Ethereum, Uniswap, and Across.
CFTC and SEC push the US toward a clearer digital-asset regime while MiCA forces, AML caps and an Illinois transfer tax squeeze the same rails from across the Atlantic.
Aave is one of DeFi's biggest lending protocols — a place where you can earn yield on assets or borrow against them with no bank involved. Here is how it works.
Chainlink powers most DeFi price feeds, but most LINK holders never earn fees. Here is the staking v0.9 design, what CCIP really does, and who actually competes with it.
Compound is the lending protocol that helped invent DeFi yield. Deposit assets, earn interest set by an algorithm, or borrow against them. Here is how it works.
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.
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.
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