Visa's onchain credit, a weekend tokenized bank transfer on Swift, and Uzbekistan's som-pegged stablecoin show digital money moving into the…
Circle Bets $400 Million on Tazapay to Push USDC Deeper Into Global Payments
Circle will buy Singapore payments firm Tazapay in a roughly $400M all-stock deal, deepening its push to make USDC everyday…
Revolut and OpenReserve Clear a First Hurdle to US Bank Charters — With Crypto Built In
The OCC gave Revolut and OpenReserve preliminary approval for US bank charters, with plans spanning custody, tokenized deposits and stablecoins.
The Cross-Border Payment Stack Is Being Unbundled — and Stablecoins Are the Wedge
A single week saw Visa join MAS’s BLOOM, OpenPayd link to Circle’s network, and pilots from Agorá to Pangea —…
Europe Keeps Squeezing Tether — Yet USDT Demand Barely Blinks
Revolut is delisting USDT in Europe under MiCA, but analysts say global demand for Tether shows little sign of shifting.
America’s Crypto Rulebook Is Finally Getting Written: Three Signals From One Week
Stablecoin deadlines, SEC funding exemptions and fresh CFTC penalties landed within days of each other, sketching the outline of US…
Washington Is Regulating Crypto by Other Means While CLARITY Stalls
With the CLARITY Act stuck in the Senate, the CFTC, SEC and Treasury are advancing crypto rules through their own…
After Years of Doubt, Tether Submits to a Full Audit — and Passes
Tether says KPMG US gave its first full financial audit an unqualified opinion, disclosing $141B in Treasuries and reserves $6.8B…
Galaxy Cuts the Odds of a 2026 US Crypto Market Law to Just 10%
Galaxy Digital slashed its estimate for the CLARITY Act passing in 2026 to 10%, citing a narrow Senate window and…
Euro-Area Shops Still Won’t Take Crypto — and the ECB Now Has the Receipts
An ECB survey of 8,205 businesses finds just 0.2% of online euro-area retailers accept crypto, even as mobile payments jump…
Tether Finally Opens Its Books, and KPMG Gives Them a Clean Bill of Health
Tether completed its first full independent audit, with KPMG issuing a clean opinion on its 2025 accounts and reserves topping…
The Quiet Institutionalization of Crypto: ETFs, Oracles, Treasuries and the Rulebook
ETFs, tokenization, stablecoin treasuries and tighter rules point to the same 2026 shift: crypto's real story is infrastructure, not price.