325 posts tagged with "Stablecoins"
Stablecoin projects and their role in crypto finance
a16z Crypto's $2B Fifth Fund: Why a Halved Vintage Is the Loudest Bullish Signal in Crypto VC
Andreessen Horowitz is targeting $2B for its fifth crypto fund — less than half the size of its 2022 vintage. Smaller, faster, and sharper, the raise is the clearest map yet of how 2026 crypto capital actually gets allocated.
FASB's Cash-Equivalent Pivot: The Quiet Vote That Could Put Stablecoins on Every Fortune 500 Balance Sheet
FASB's April 15, 2026 vote to allow payment stablecoins as cash equivalents under U.S. GAAP removes the last accounting barrier blocking Fortune 500 treasury adoption and could redirect trillions in corporate cash management toward USDC and other GENIUS Act-compliant issuers.
Hong Kong–Korea Web3 Policy Alliance: Asia Builds Its First Bilateral Crypto Recognition Regime
Hong Kong and Korea launched the first bilateral Web3 policy alliance in Asia, aiming to align stablecoin, VATP, and tokenized fund rules across two of the region's largest crypto financial centers.
Lightspark and Visa Bring Self-Custodial Bitcoin and Stablecoin Debit Cards to 100+ Countries
Lightspark's Grid platform plugs Visa cards into self-custodial Bitcoin and stablecoin wallets across 100+ countries, and Avvio is the first issuer betting users will keep the keys.
MiCA's €200M Daily Cap: How Europe's Stablecoin Wall Reshapes 2026 Payments
Article 23 of MiCA forces non-euro stablecoins like USDT and USDC to stop issuance once they cross €200 million in daily payment volume. Here is how the cap is reshaping European payment stacks around EURC, EURCV, and EURAU in 2026.
OKX's Agent Payments Protocol Just Made the x402 vs AP2 vs TAP War a Three-Way Race
OKX shipped the broadest day-one coalition in the agent-payments standards war, and the spec covers quoting, escrow, and disputes — not just paying. Here's what that means for x402, AP2, TAP, and anyone building agent commerce in 2026.
Stripe Sessions 2026: 288 Launches, One Bet on AI-Native Money
Stripe shipped 288 product updates at Sessions 2026, collapsing AI agent payments, branded stablecoin issuance, debit cards in 32 new markets, and a UCP standard with Meta and Google into one developer surface. Here is what the consolidated stack means.
Tether Q1 2026: $1.04B Profit Builds a Stablecoin Sovereign Wealth Fund
Tether earned $1.04B in 90 days on a $191.8B balance sheet — $141B Treasuries, $20B gold, $7B Bitcoin, and $8.23B excess reserves. Why USDT looks more like a sovereign wealth fund than a stablecoin company.
Justin Sun's $20M Bid for Aave on Tron
TRON DAO and HTX supplied $20 million USDT to Aave V3 to lobby for a Tron deployment—a small check that puts DeFi's largest lending protocol in front of its most consequential multichain decision of 2026.