329 posts tagged with "Stablecoins"
Stablecoin projects and their role in crypto finance
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.
Brazil's 8-Year Prison Threat: How Bill 4.308/2024 Could Erase Ethena's USDe From Latin America
Brazil's Bill 4.308/2024 would ban Ethena's USDe and Frax with up to eight years in prison for issuers — the harshest stablecoin regime among major jurisdictions, in a country where 90% of crypto trading is stablecoins.
Base Just Conceded the L2 Race—And That's Why It Will Win
Coinbase's Base just narrowed its 2026 strategy to three pillars—tokenized markets, stablecoin payments, and AI agents—reshaping how every other Ethereum L2 has to compete.
Coinbase CUSHY: How a Stablecoin Credit Fund Could Pull Billions From Money Markets Onchain
Coinbase Asset Management's CUSHY fund pairs Apollo private credit, Superstate's FundOS, and Northern Trust administration on Ethereum, Solana, and Base — the most institutional tokenized credit launch yet, and a direct read-through on the GENIUS Act.
Hong Kong's 24/7 Tokenized Fund Markets Just Killed Wall Street's Closing Bell
Hong Kong's SFC just authorized 24/7 secondary trading of tokenized funds settled in licensed stablecoins, putting the city ahead of the U.S., EU, and Singapore on retail-grade tokenization rails.
Meta's USDC Comeback: Stablecoin Creator Payouts Launch on Polygon and Solana
Four years after killing Diem, Meta is paying creators in USDC on Polygon and Solana through Stripe — starting in Colombia and the Philippines, expanding to 160 countries. Here is why this rollout works where Libra failed, and what it means for the stablecoin distribution map.
OCC Letter 1188: The Quiet Rule Letting US Banks Take Over Stablecoins
OCC Interpretive Letter 1188 quietly authorized national banks to run crypto trading desks without MSB registration. Combined with the GENIUS Act framework whose comment period just closed, it puts JPMorgan, Citi, BofA, and Wells Fargo at the center of the US stablecoin stack.