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Stablecoins
Dollar tokens and the payment rails they run on: issuance, reserves, settlement and the firms moving money over them.
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Stablecoin Treasury Hits 13% of Corporates as CFOs Weigh Speed vs Yield
Stablecoin treasury has moved from the crypto margins to the corporate boardroom. By mid-2025, about 13 percent of financial institutions and corporates worldwide were already using…
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Stablecoin Payroll Hits 25% of Firms as Deel Pays Employees On-Chain
In May 2026, Deel, the largest global HR platform, started paying full-time employees their salaries in stablecoins. The rollout, on the Polygon blockchain for workers in…
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Stablecoin Cards Reach 150M Merchants, but the Networks Still Win
Stablecoin cards have arrived, and their defining feature is that you cannot tell you are using one. Visa’s stablecoin settlement reached a $4.6 billion annualized run…
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Stablecoin Payments Jumped 733% in B2B as Firms Skip the Wire
A standard cross-border wire takes two to five days and costs up to 7 percent. Stablecoins settle in minutes, for as little as 0.5 percent, per…
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Kevin Warsh’s Digital Dollar Leaves No Seat for XRP in the SDR
XRP appears exactly once in the 2022 Hoover Institution report, in a routine list of payment innovators beside Circle, Coinbase, JP Morgan, Paxos, Polygon and Stellar,…
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Ripple’s Two Sovereign Decisions: Japan Down, Fed Approaches by September
On May 19, the US opened a Fed review of non-bank master account access while Japan’s Financial Services Agency, the same day, created the stablecoin pathway…
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Coinbase Partners with Cardless to Launch Stablecoin-Backed Credit Card Product
New payment solution targets crypto holders unable to access traditional unsecured credit lines
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Meta’s USDC Creator Payments Highlight Digital Currency Adoption Gap
Social media giant’s stablecoin payouts reveal disconnect between blockchain settlement and real-world spending
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Trump Administration Launches Comprehensive Review of Cryptocurrency Payment Infrastructure Access
New executive directive examines how crypto firms interact with traditional payment systems amid regulatory uncertainty
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Treasury Bills Cannot Shield Major Stablecoin Issuers From Acute Liquidity Events, Financial Expert Warns
Analysis suggests even massive T-bill reserves may prove insufficient during severe market stress scenarios for Tether and Circle
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Hyperliquid USDC Integration Poses Strategic Challenge to Circle and Coinbase Revenue Streams
DeFi protocol’s native stablecoin move could reshape competitive dynamics in crypto trading infrastructure
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Tether Pushes Major Bitcoin Industry Consolidation with Three-Company Merger Plan
Stablecoin giant’s investment arm seeks to combine treasury, mining, and financial services into single public entity