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Key insights: Stablecoin news centers on U.S. Bank’s live cross-border USBDC payment pilot. The bank used Stellar to connect the payment to its internal infrastructure. The bank also plans se
A crypto bull run never feels like one while it is happening. It feels like flat charts and quiet record profits for early buyers. Bitcoin's short term whales hit a record $9.07 billion in pa
Tether and Fasanara Capital launched StableFund on Sept. 9, creating an evergreen private credit vehicle backed by $400 million in co-investment from the two sponsors. The fund will use Tethe
Hunter Biden said he is launching a Base-chain memecoin called $LAPTOP, and analytics firm Bubblemaps says nearly 80% of tracked traders have already lost money, with the token changing hands
Zora co-founder Dee Goens announced on Wednesday that he has taken over the position of chief executive of the onchain social network from Jacob Horne. The appointment of Goens comes at a cha
U.S. Bank says it has successfully completed a live cross-border payments pilot using its proprietary USBDC stablecoin issued on the public Stellar network. The test involved transfers betwee
Block, Inc. has moved to build a federally supervised custody business, applying to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Builders Bank & Trust, N.A., a proposed national
1inch has routed more than $800 billion in trades, yet one of its co-founders reportedly says decentralized finance is still too small to turn a profit. It is a striking contradiction: enormo
The key points at a glance Two moments, two taxes: staking is taxed when the reward arrives and taxed again when you later sell it. Anyone thinking only about the sale is missing half the pic
Visa's stablecoin settlement volume exceeds $20 billion on an annualized basis, a milestone that measures the current pace of settlement activity rather than a completed calendar-year or trai
Anyone checking the Cardano price prediction this week is stuck on one number: $0.22. ADA has tested it for days, and the chart underneath says more. DEX volume tripled to $7.28 million, per
The crypto market news this week is a coin the market gave up on ripping 120% in a month. One whale is betting $45 million that it stops. Zcash hit $1,249 on September 6, its highest price si
