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Wall Street turns cautious on Circle as analysts warn USDC economics face mounting pressure
Mizuho downgraded the stock and JPMorgan lowered earnings estimates, citing concerns that USDC is coming under pressure.
How a zeroed oracle signature unlocked $9M from Hedera DeFi lender Bonzo Lend
The verifier accepted identity inputs as proof, letting 250 SAUCE support $9.05 million in principal borrowing. The p…
Stablecoins are moving more money while crypto’s cash pile gets smaller
Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume reached a record $1.79 trillion in June, according to Visa Onchain Analytics, …
Stablecoin FX priced below interbank rates in Q2, with routing now the biggest cost lever: Borderless
Stablecoin payments were priced 3.2 bps below interbank FX rates across 260 corridors in Q2, per Borderless.xyz's ben…
Circle can now open a US trust bank but cannot take ordinary deposits or make loans
Circle National Trust starts with custody for Circle and affiliates, while outside institutional custody and USDC res…
BNB Chain Haber Specs Point To Faster Finality And A More Competitive Network Stack
BNB Chain Haber Specs Point To Faster Finality And A More Competitive Network Stack is the kind of crypto story that …
Stripe-owned Privy and Jito co-develop Solana transaction inclusion tool FullSend
FullSend works by automatically routing every transaction signed in a Privy wallet directly to the current Solana blo…
Ethereum is losing ownership of crypto payments as Base moves $565B in stablecoins
Visa's adjusted June data shows L2s competing for the dollar flows that could define crypto payments. The post Ethere…
Russia’s legal crypto on-ramp to arrive with a state-owned bank holding the keys
The reported December launch matters because Russia’s new rules may make custody, limits, and compliance the price …
Cardano’s 9.0.1 Hotfix Shows Why Last-Mile Upgrades Matter Before A Hard Fork
Hard forks are usually discussed in big-picture terms, but the final approach is often decided by smaller technical c…
Dogecoin Core 1.14.8 Lands With Security Fixes The Network Cannot Ignore
Dogecoin does not always get taken seriously when the market is in meme mode, but infrastructure updates are where th…
Stripe’s Solana Stablecoin Push Brings Another Real Payments Use Case Into View
Stablecoins keep inching closer to the part of crypto that matters most in the long run: actual usage. Stripe’s mov…
New SummerFi DeFi exploit shows AI automation now sits above smart contract risk
Blockaid estimated about $6 million drained as Summer.fi paused Lazy Summer vaults and investigated the cause. The po…
Vitalik Buterin proposes ‘Extremely Lean’ Ethereum, shrinking the chain to near-zero state with ZK proofs
Buterin outlined a two-step plan to shift Ethereum's state management to validators and replace per-epoch balance upd…
Why Binance’s reported $2B Mesh investment could decide who controls stablecoin payments
The signal is about who controls the wallet-to-merchant path that makes tokenized dollars spendable. The post Why Bin…
OpenUSD’s partner mix-up puts its stablecoin alliance under scrutiny
A stablecoin built around a giant partner list now faces the question every coalition coin must answer: who is actual…
Cardano Development Activity Pushes Back Against ADA Price Stagnation
Cardano node releases show continued development work even as ADA remains stuck in a tight market range.
Bitcoin’s 14% Q2 drop came as stablecoin market contracts for first time since 2023
Bitcoin’s second-quarter slide unfolded alongside a rare contraction in the stablecoin market, adding another sign …
Solana Foundation Launches Validator Governance Framework for On-Chain Voting
Solana Foundation Launches Validator Governance Framework for On-Chain Voting — what the latest source material sho…
Coinbase helped build USDC – Why is it now backing the stablecoin trying to replace it, Open USD?
The stablecoin market has long rewarded the companies that issue digital dollars. They take in customer cash, hold re…
Circle CEO says Open USD must break USDC’s network effect before its 140 backers matter
Allaire says the stablecoin fight will hinge on liquidity, integrations and regulated usage once OUSD goes live. The …
USDC And Bitcoin Lead $850 Million Exchange Outflow Wave
Centralized exchanges reportedly saw notable 24-hour withdrawals led by USDC and Bitcoin as traders moved funds off p…
Is OpenUSD the answer to bank push back on CLARITY? Hints stablecoin yield concessions will fail
The 140-partner model challenges USDC reserve economics while leaving issuer, reserve and redemption tests unresolved…
Taiwan’s new crypto law gives banks the first real stablecoin advantage
The rules do not hand issuance to banks, but reserves, custody, audits and no-yield limits put financial infrastructu…
Solana USDC Liquidity Jumps As Circle Mints Another $1 Billion
Circle reportedly minted another $1 billion of USDC on Solana, adding to the network’s already large gross issuance…
MiCA’s July 1 deadline is Europe’s first crypto user-migration test – OKX interview
Europe's crypto market resets on July 1, when MiCA's transitional period ends and unauthorized exchanges lose the leg…
Bernstein sees 203% upside for Circle even as new stablecoin rival OUSD debuts
Bernstein reaffirms Outperform on Circle with a $190 target after OUSD's launch sent CRCL stock down over 17%.
Circle shares sink 16% after Open USD reveal, analysts say fears are ‘overblown’
William Blair reiterated its Outperform rating on Circle's CRCL stock, calling Tuesday's selloff a buying opportunity.
US starts clock to bring in ID checks for converting dollars to stablecoins but DeFi stays outside the rules
US agencies are formalizing identity checks at the issuer gate while leaving the transfer layer politically exposed. …
Will UK traders lose crypto exchange access after MiCA’s July 1 deadline?
The EU deadline is not a direct UK cutoff, but account entity and platform notices still matter. The post Will UK tra…