329 posts tagged with "Stablecoins"
Stablecoin projects and their role in crypto finance
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.
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.