Tag: stablecoins
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Washington is weighing joint ventures to sell dollar stablecoins to the rest of the world
The plan would put the US government alongside private issuers in exporting the dollar, and nobody has said which issuers.
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Crypto lost half its market value in a year, and the economy underneath shrank 1.6 percent
Chainalysis says real usage held up through the worst bear market since 2022, though its fastest growth is in the flows hardest to measure.
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SoFi moved its $25 billion card programme onto a stablecoin its own bank issues
SoFi is the first US national bank to settle Mastercard transactions in its own token, and the design only works if merchants never notice.
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Binance took a $100 million stake in Circle, the company that pays it to promote USDC
The shares arrived with a five-year deal under which Circle pays Binance a monthly fee, which makes it hard to say who is investing…
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Coinbase just got a shortcut into more than 3,000 small American banks
A white-label deal with Stablecore lets community banks offer crypto trading under their own name, and Coinbase’s stock jumped 5.75 percent on the news.
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Circle’s own blockchain goes live today, and BlackRock and Visa are already running its nodes
Arc pays its transaction fees in dollars instead of a token that moves, which is either the point or the thing that makes it…
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Circle is paying $400 million in stock for the last mile of a stablecoin payment
Tazapay already runs most of its volume in stablecoins and has built Circle’s payments network since 2025, so the deal buys licences more than…
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Felix Pago raised $200m for stablecoin remittances, and more than half is debt
The equity cheque that sets the company’s value is $87m; the rest is a credit line it has to repay.
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Twenty-one banks are forming one company to issue a dollar stablecoin
The group has a currency, a market and a compliance plan, and everything else, including the company itself, is still subject to formation and…