USDC: Circle Mints 500M on Solana
Solana's DeFi ecosystem gains fresh settlement capacity, while DEX pools and lending flows will show whether the new supply becomes active liquidity.
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Solana's DeFi ecosystem gains fresh settlement capacity, while DEX pools and lending flows will show whether the new supply becomes active liquidity.
Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger warns that reopening the stablecoin-yield provision less than three weeks before the procedural vote would restart a settled negotiation and likely sink…
The $75M exemption and safe harbor give crypto issuers their first tiered federal compliance framework; combined with $137M of ETF inflows, the institutional rail is being built out in real time.
More than 600 pages of federal crypto framework, and a successful cloture vote on Sept. 15 would end months of stalemate over stablecoin rewards and Trump's ethics conflicts.
The Wyoming Stable Token Commission is the first US public entity to swap blockchain infrastructure on security grounds, joining a $15B migration wave triggered by the $292M Kelp DAO exploit.
Ardoino pinned the multi-year wait on the prior US administration's crypto stance and Senator Warren's public criticism of Tether, framing the clean opinion as vindication after years of skepticism.
Hong Kong's stablecoin law took effect two months before the US GENIUS Act. With HashKey and OSL already minting, this is the first bank-anchored test of that framework.
Thune's cloture filing gives the bill its first formal Senate path, but the 60-vote threshold makes September a binary test of whether a viable bipartisan coalition actually exists.
The presale revenue offsets near-term USDC supply pressure, but Circle's deeper push into token infrastructure puts it on a collision course with Coinbase, its longest-standing distribution partner.
Tether keeps printing record operating profits while the equity cushion that backstops USDT shrinks, leaving $4.1B against $183.6B of liabilities and a treasury now heavy in gold and BTC.
The reserve drawdown and the profit cooldown are linked: Tether's BTC and gold positions have cooled as the same assets that fueled last year's record earnings drag on this year's mark-to-market.
Open USD launches day-one on Ethereum with 140+ partners including BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and BNY, routing all reserve yield back to the issuers that grow it.
With seven floor days before the August break and a 60-vote threshold still unfilled, the bipartisan compromise on Trump's crypto conflict-of-interest language is the bill's clearest shot at momentum.
The lobbying push lands with a hard deadline: the Senate has until the first week of August to clear crypto legislation before election-year politics swallow the calendar.
Tiered capital requirements for new crypto custodians land just days after the EU sanctioned 14 Russia-linked crypto firms, signalling Moscow is choosing regulated rails over offshore exits.
The crypto industry's biggest campaign-finance war chest is deployed, and the read on whether it shifts the regulatory floor matters more than the dollar number itself.
The patent haul gives Circle, already the second-largest stablecoin issuer, a defensive IP moat that rivals will struggle to replicate quickly.
The Singapore payments firm says customer funds are safe even as the onchain investigator tracking the bleed reports the figure has climbed $2.5M in days, with incoming deposits still being drained…
The president's own token and stablecoin businesses are now the political friction point in a bill that would split SEC and CFTC oversight of digital assets, and the standoff threatens to push final…
Morgan Stanley and KBW are running the process for the London-based institutional venue, with a Nasdaq listing currently the preferred route as it sits on a $150M Ripple tie-up and a 24/7 multi-asset…