Dollar-Backed Stablecoins Could Get Trump’s Global Push
The plan could deepen demand for U.S. Treasuries, while raising concerns that dollar tokens could accelerate capital flight from emerging markets.
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The plan could deepen demand for U.S. Treasuries, while raising concerns that dollar tokens could accelerate capital flight from emerging markets.
Tazapay hands Circle the licensed last-mile infrastructure to convert USDC into local currency on local rails, the structural moat USDT has long owned in emerging markets.
A Paraná pilot turned encrypted cow collars into $20K of working collateral on B3, but the live test runs in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya and Pakistan where farmers already own the wealth banks refuse to…
The BIS argues dollar-pegged tokens are insulated from the capital flight rules that govern local-currency outflows, putting pressure on monetary sovereignty in vulnerable economies.
If signed by Putin, the framework brings crypto into Russia's formal legal perimeter from September 1, formalising mining, taxation, and cross-border use after years of ad-hoc policy.
The print lands as Beijing's stimulus toolkit narrows and global markets recalibrate the China growth premium that has anchored commodity and currency trades for two years.
The scope spans cash, bullion, and the dominant offshore stablecoin, signaling Bangkok is treating USDT rails as money-laundering infrastructure rather than a crypto novelty.
The widest gap since 2020 reflects what a weakening pound and a softer Suez toll-revenue base do to a balance of payments still running on IMF support.
The move deepens Milei's stabilization fight just months before midterm elections, with capital controls failing to hold the line as blue-chip swap rates blow out.
Indian rupee volatility and tightening USDT rails are pushing the on-shore premium to extreme territory, with local demand now revealing the depth of the country's de facto dollar shortage.
Abdulla Kanoo, an heir to Bahrain's 135-year-old Kanoo business dynasty, is building blockchain-based settlement…
The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that Nigeria's surging stablecoin adoption is "testing the limits" of…
The new rules are the country's first dedicated crypto regime, channeling a decade of peer-to-peer trading into the formal system with a $500 annual fee designed to pull traders in rather than price…
South Korea's KOSPI index plunged 8.4% on Monday, forcing exchange operators to halt trading after an automatic circuit…
If the bull case lands, tokenized equities and stablecoin-settled stock trading pull a $2T–$5T annual capital flow into global equity markets — with nearly 93% of Binance's stock trading base already…
The MOVE chain is chasing the $685B emerging-market remittance corridor and repurchasing nearly 1 in 5 investor tokens — a structural bet that payments, not scaling, is where the next leg of crypto…
China is reportedly developing AI token futures markets that would transform AI usage itself into a tradable asset…
Taiwan has officially surpassed India to claim the rank of the world's fifth largest stock market by capitalization, a…
The check is the headline, but the real signal is the rails: 50+ corridors, $32B annualized volume, and a Shariah-compliant wrapper slotting stablecoin banking into markets correspondent banks still…
Vietnam's Deputy Finance Minister has signaled that the country could officially launch a regulated crypto asset market…