Tag: stablecoins
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The OCC’s final stablecoin rule drops its presumption against third-party rewards, and leaves them to case-by-case enforcement
The rule takes effect on 18 January 2027, but whether yield passed through a partner counts as evasion is still undecided.
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France’s Assembly backed the stablecoin swap tax by 38 votes to 37, and the budget minister wants it withdrawn
The margin is a single vote, with 25 abstentions and a government that has said it will oppose the amendment.
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Circle says $819 million of its $1.4 billion USDC revenue went to partners and costs, leaving about 7 cents on the dollar
The figures come from Circle’s own blog post, written to answer rivals who say issuers keep too much.
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What is a stablecoin?
A crypto token designed to hold a fixed price, usually one dollar, and the reasons that is harder than it sounds.
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Standard Chartered has pushed its $2 trillion stablecoin forecast back two years, to 2030
Supply has sat between $300 billion and $320 billion for a year, while the bank says usage has kept climbing.
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Europe has named USDC its first ‘significant’ stablecoin, and has not said what tipped it over
The classification hands the EBA a bigger supervisory role over Circle’s euro issuer, and the announcement does not give the test USDC passed.
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France is weighing a 31.4 percent tax on swapping into regulated stablecoins, and Chainalysis says it will push trades offshore
The amendment taxes the most compliant tokens and leaves USDT untouched.
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Stablecoins have grown to $306 billion, and the G20’s watchdog says nobody has seen one fail at scale
The Financial Stability Board wants a plan for a crisis in an industry whose rules are still being written country by country.
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Europe’s markets regulator wants unlicensed stablecoins off crypto platforms by January, and names none of them
The opinion never mentions Tether, whose USDT is the largest token it would catch.
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Three crypto rulings in one week, and what each one leaves out
Brussels, London and New York all acted on crypto in the same few days, and each action stopped short of the number that would…