325 posts tagged with "Stablecoins"
Stablecoin projects and their role in crypto finance
Tether's Scudo Bet: Can a Satoshi-Style Gold Unit Finally Make Bullion Spendable?
Tether's new Scudo unit slices XAUT into 1/1,000 troy ounce chunks worth about $4.80 each — a satoshi-style rebrand aiming to turn tokenized gold from a vault asset into everyday spending money.
Every Second Counts: How WLFI's USD1 Just Rewrote the Stablecoin Transparency Playbook
WLFI's USD1 now updates its reserve backing every second via Chainlink and BitGo — why real-time proof-of-reserves is about to become table stakes for every major stablecoin.
Zama's HTTPZ Bet: Can FHE Become the Default Privacy Layer of the Internet?
Zama's mainnet is live, cUSDT moved confidentially on Ethereum for 13 cents, and the company is selling a big idea called HTTPZ — private-by-default computation. Here's what's real, what's still hype, and why 2026 is the year FHE exits the lab.
Aave Just Crossed $1 Trillion in Loans — And TradFi Can No Longer Pretend DeFi Is a Toy
Aave became the first DeFi protocol to cross $1 trillion in cumulative loan originations in February 2026. Here is how it ran away from Compound, Morpho, and Sky — and why SOC 2 attestation plus Horizon's institutional RWA stack now put it on bank counterparty lists.
Tempo Goes Institutional: Visa, Stripe, and Zodia Become Validators on the Stablecoin L1 Built to Eat Card Rails
Visa, Stripe, and Zodia just became validators on Tempo, the Paradigm-incubated stablecoin L1. Here is what the institutional buy-in means for payment rails — and how Tempo stacks up against Circle's Arc.
XRP Finally Meets DeFi: Inside wXRP's Solana Debut and the $170B Liquidity Unlock
Hex Trust and LayerZero shipped wrapped XRP on Solana with $100M launch TVL, ending a decade of XRP's DeFi isolation and reshaping cross-chain liquidity strategy.
Circle Arc Bets the Stablecoin Future on Quantum-Resistant Cryptography — Why the First Post-Quantum L1 Matters Before Bitcoin Does
Circle is shipping Arc, a stablecoin-native L1, with opt-in post-quantum signatures at mainnet — the first major chain to treat lattice cryptography as a launch feature. Here's why institutional allocators are paying attention.
Circle's CPN Managed Payments: The USDC Abstraction Layer That Lets Banks Skip the Crypto Part
Circle launched CPN Managed Payments on April 8, 2026 — a full-stack settlement platform that lets banks move money in USDC without ever holding a stablecoin. Here's why it is the stablecoin industry's cloud-computing moment.
Tether Becomes DeFi's Lender of Last Resort: Inside the $150M Drift Recovery Pool
Tether's $150M backstop for Drift Protocol after its $286M DPRK-linked hack reframes who absorbs systemic risk in DeFi — and installs a private stablecoin issuer as something close to a lender of last resort.