Stablecoins

The US Treasury Department has issued proposed licensing rules for payment stablecoin issuers under Section 3 of the GENIUS Act, establishing a potential timeline for federal and state oversight.

A longtime Bitcoin Core contributor living in El Zonte, El Salvador, has highlighted a significant drop in everyday cryptocurrency transactions, with local vendors noting that card payments have largely replaced bitcoin....

Analysts at Bernstein project a new growth cycle for Circle's USDC stablecoin, maintaining an Outperform rating and a $140 price target.

Digital currency card transactions surpassed $1.04 billion in July, with USDC and USDT powering over 70% of the volume.

Investment manager Lawrence Lepard warns that stablecoins cannot single-handedly rescue the U.S. Treasury debt market, citing a $255 billion stablecoin market cap that covers only a fraction of annual government debt nee...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted preliminary conditional approval for World Liberty Trust Company to organize as a national trust bank.

While tokenized fund issuance has expanded significantly, industry experts argue that the next phase of growth depends on enabling these assets to function as active onchain collateral.

A detailed look at why stablecoins lose their peg, examining historical depegs ranging from banking issues to algorithmic collapses and yield-strategy failures.

As foreign investors reduce their holdings of short-term US Treasury bills, Washington's debt strategy increasingly looks to stablecoin issuers who back their digital tokens with government debt.

The XRP Ledger has surpassed Stellar in total stablecoin supply, driven by the growth of Ripple USD (RLUSD), which recently crossed a $2 billion market cap.

Eric Trump and other key investors have signed commitments to stay away from management decisions at World Liberty Financial’s proposed national trust bank during the federal approval process.

A technical review reveals that the live contract for the $4 billion USD1 stablecoin includes functions allowing privileged operators to drain or reallocate funds from frozen accounts, features that are missing from the ...

Blockchain analytics platform Token Terminal has expanded its data coverage to track more than 4,600 tokenized assets across 310 issuers and 45 chains, highlighting stablecoin dominance.

Economist Steve Hanke has drafted a bill to abolish the Venezuelan bolivar and the central bank as part of a push toward formal dollarization, while stablecoins like USDT remain heavily used for daily transactions.

Major Russian e-commerce platforms Wildberries and Ozon are preparing to introduce digital ruble payments as part of Moscow's rollout of its central bank digital currency.

A federal judge has kept Justin Sun's individual claims against World Liberty Financial in open court, coinciding with the preliminary conditional approval of the World Liberty Trust Company.

Finassets has integrated USDC on the Solana network into its Back Office, providing merchants with an alternative for low-cost stablecoin settlements.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released a proposed rule to treat certain stablecoins as cash equivalents, a move analysts say could accelerate adoption and pressure banking regulators.

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission is moving its state-backed FRNT stable token infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP following a security review.

Stablecoin infrastructure platforms provide B2B technology and compliance systems designed for products utilizing fiat-backed tokens. These platforms generally handle functions such as issuance, custody, wallets, fiat ra...