Stablecoins

World Liberty Financial CEO Zach Witkoff defended the stablecoin USD1 by pointing to strong trading volume and market stats, amid ongoing scrutiny from critics and federal lawmakers regarding the company's ties to the Tr...

The crypto trade group warned that forcing issuers to verify identities for peer-to-peer wallet transfers would “cripple the industry” as regulators implement the GENIUS Act.

Bitwise Asset Management has introduced Automated Token Portfolios, allowing eligible non-US users to replicate model portfolios built from Coinbase's tokenized US stocks.

Mastercard’s $1.8 billion acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK has done more than expand its digital-asset capabilities. It has also changed the competitive landscape for stablecoin payments. That is by...

Sui’s onchain stablecoin supply is holding near $500 million, per Defillama, even as the network’s zero-fee transfer rails keep processing tens of billions of dollars in monthly settlement volume. Slow And Steady Onchain...

Standard Chartered has partnered with Anchorpoint Financial to become an authorized distributor of the Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin HKDAP, moving into regulated stablecoin financing activities.

Stablecoins are increasingly adopted in digital services, gaming platforms, and global commerce, offering low fees and price stability tied to assets like the U.S. dollar.

Agentic onchain payments experienced a significant rebound, with x402 stablecoin transfers reaching 8.7 million in the week starting August 17.

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Artificial intelligence agents initiated 3.3 million USDC in x402 payments on Solana within a single week, underscoring emerging machine-to-machine payment use cases.

Franklin Templeton plans to utilize its tokenized money-market assets within conventional ETFs and mutual funds following a regulatory no-action position from the SEC.

Payments company Banxa has launched Native, a headless infrastructure designed to embed fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat transactions directly into partner apps without redirects.

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) has become the first authorized bank to distribute the regulated HKDAP stablecoin, offering blockchain settlement options for institutional clients.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino highlights the growing reliance on USDT in developing economies for domestic and international commerce, propelling the stablecoin's market capitalization past $180 billion.

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.

Fasset raised $68 million in a Series C led by SBI Group as the companies plan a digital bank in Malaysia and to expand stablecoin payments.

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...