Stablecoin coverage, including USDC and Tether, payments adoption, bank experiments and the rules taking shape around them.
Key points Payments giant Visa has identified precisely what would persuade more Americans to move money abroad using stablecoins. It is deposit insurance and bank-grade fraud protection, and neither is available, because US regulators decided against it on purpose. That turns the study‘s headline finding into something more useful than a growth forecast. It is…
BlackRock says autonomous AI agents will soon buy compute and data with stablecoins, a shift that could reshape crypto’s core use case.
Circle Stake sees Binance buy $100M in Circle and promote USDC for five years, boosting USDC distribution on the top crypto exchange.
Blockchain Built for USDC payments, Circle Arc mainnet lets businesses pay transaction fees in USDC, removing native token volatility.
Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and 18 other banks and asset managers agreed to build a joint dollar stablecoin company targeting a mid-2027 launch.
Bitcoin and Ethereum won approval for retail trading on Russia’s licensed exchanges on August 11, alongside Tether, opening its regulated market.
Circle Q2 revenue totaled $701 million, $12 million below estimates, raising concerns over USDC growth and reserve yield profitability.
Dinari has launched 724 tokenized stocks for U.S. investors, letting them buy shares in self-custody wallets using USDC through a Circle partnership.
Ripple’s end-to-end stablecoin platform has signed more than 50 financial institutions, betting RLUSD rails can replace correspondent banking for cross-border.
PayPal Stablecoin expansion follows an $8.68 billion Q2 revenue beat, bringing PYUSD to checkout and Venmo for 400 million accounts.