325 posts tagged with "Stablecoins"
Stablecoin projects and their role in crypto finance
The People's Wallet Gambit: Tether's $184B Pivot From Stablecoin Plumbing to Consumer Fintech
Tether launched tether.wallet on April 14, 2026 — a self-custodial consumer app for USDT, USAT, XAUT, and Bitcoin that disintermediates exchanges and positions the $184B issuer as bank-replacement infrastructure for emerging markets and AI agents.
Aave Horizon Hits $550M as Institutional RWA Lending Finds Product-Market Fit
Aave's Horizon market has crossed $550M in deposits, pushing toward a $1B target. Permissioned collateral plus permissionless liquidity may be the template that finally brings TradFi on-chain.
DoorDash Goes Onchain: Why the Tempo Stablecoin Deal Is the Moment Gig Pay Left the Banking Rails
DoorDash's April 21, 2026 partnership with Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain commits a public consumer brand to stablecoin payouts across 40+ countries — the opening shot of gig pay leaving traditional banking rails.
FASB Cracks Open the Door for Stablecoins as 'Cash': The April 15, 2026 Decision Reshaping Corporate Treasuries
FASB's April 15, 2026 vote on stablecoin cash-equivalent classification could reshape Fortune 500 balance sheets, unlocking corporate treasury demand tied to GENIUS Act-compliant issuers.
FastBridge Collapses the 7-Day L2 Exit: Curve's LayerZero Rail for crvUSD
Curve's FastBridge uses LayerZero messaging and a vault-and-mint design to compress crvUSD transfers from Arbitrum, Optimism, and Fraxtal to Ethereum into roughly 15 minutes — sidestepping the 7-day challenge window and reshaping L2 withdrawal UX.
GENIUS Act Gets Real: April 2026 NPRMs Redraw the US Stablecoin Map
April 2026's Treasury, FDIC, and OCC rulemakings turn the GENIUS Act into binding US stablecoin law — here is what the $10B threshold, yield prohibition, and July 18 deadline mean for Circle, Tether, and every issuer still racing to register.
Hong Kong Just Opened 24/7 Trading for Regulated Funds on Crypto Exchanges
Hong Kong's SFC authorized 24/7 secondary trading of tokenized money market funds on licensed crypto exchanges — the first major jurisdiction to give retail investors a round-the-clock tokenization framework backed by regulated stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
Resolv Hack: How One AWS Key Minted $25M and Broke DeFi Again
A $100K deposit minted $25M in unbacked USR tokens after an attacker compromised a single AWS KMS key. The Resolv hack exposes how cloud infrastructure has become DeFi's weakest link.
Tether's MiningOS Gambit: How a $150B Stablecoin Giant Is Rebranding as Bitcoin's Infrastructure Layer
Tether released its Bitcoin mining stack as open source under Apache 2.0. The real story isn't the software — it's a $150B stablecoin issuer repositioning itself as a Bitcoin infrastructure company on the eve of the GENIUS Act.