329 posts tagged with "Stablecoins"
Stablecoin projects and their role in crypto finance
Base Hits $13B Bridged TVL: Inside the L2 That Stopped Trying to Win Everything
Coinbase's Base L2 crossed $13B bridged TVL on May 2, 2026, with stablecoins driving roughly half of the value. The strategic story is how a deliberately verticalized chain pulled ahead of the general-purpose L2 race.
Hong Kong's HK$10.7B Tokenized Fund Surge: How the SFC Out-Shipped Washington
Hong Kong's tokenized fund AUM grew sevenfold to HK$10.7 billion as the SFC and HKMA shipped a coordinated stack — secondary trading, 24/7 stablecoin settlement, and the territory's first stablecoin licenses — in just ten days of April 2026.
Korea's Largest Card Network Picks Solana: Inside Shinhan's 28M-Cardholder Stablecoin Pilot
Shinhan Card and the Solana Foundation signed an April 30, 2026 MoU to pilot consumer-to-merchant stablecoin payments — the first Korean card network committing to a public chain as the won-stablecoin race accelerates and the Bank of Korea pushes back.
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.