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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 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.
Chain abstraction promises one signature across any blockchain. ERC-7683 is the emerging standard that makes it work. Here is how intents, fillers, and cross-chain settlement actually fit together.
Public blockchains expose too much for institutional money to onboard, but Miden's USDCx combines privacy-by-default with selective audit-friendly disclosure in a USDC-backed stablecoin for the first…
The Luxembourg license lets a top-tier crypto liquidity provider deal across all 27 member states from a single passport — a structural advantage as MiCA transitions from text to enforcement.
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.
Stablecoin issuers sit on a stack of overlapping licenses across the EU, UK, US, and Asia. Here is who holds what, and why offshore shells are vanishing fast.
Two US agencies claim overlapping authority over stablecoins. Here is the actual jurisdictional map, the open court cases, and where the lines remain undefined.
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.
A practical compliance map for US-to-Mexico USDC corridors, covering state licensing, MiCA CASP registration, the FATF Travel Rule, and the real audit hot spots.
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.
The GENIUS Act gives the OCC the federal stablecoin issuer license, but the SEC's claim over yield-bearing tokens and the CFTC's derivatives reach leave real seams unfilled.
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.
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