Stablecoins


Markets

Stablecoins Are the ‘Quiet Winners’ of Polymarket’s Surge: Coinbase Research

Polymarket’s growth fuels USDC demand, with stablecoins driving high-velocity settlement activity.

Shayne Coplan, CEO, Polymarket, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk).

Finance

Trump-Linked DeFi Project World Liberty Teams With Re7 for USD1 Stablecoin Vault

The Re7 Capital partnership marks latest push to scale World Liberty's stablecoin ecosystem on BNB Chain.

Justin Sun of TRON and Zak Folkman of World Liberty Financial speak at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Markets

Market Cap of Euro Stablecoins Surges to Nearly $500M as EUR/USD Rivals Bitcoin's H1 Gains

The combined market cap of EUR-pegged stablecoins has grown by 44%, with Circle's EURC leading the increase with a 138% rise.

Euro notes (jojooff/Pixabay)

Policy

Most Illicit On-Chain Activity Now Involves Stablecoins: FATF

Mass adoption of stablecoins will amplify illicit finance risks, particularly when it is handled unevenly across difference jurisdictions, the FATF said

16:9 Cyber crime (satheeshsankaran/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Custodian Taurus Launches First Stablecoin Contract With Privacy Features

The privacy-focused stablecoin contract uses the Aztec Network to combine encrypted transfers with issuer-controlled compliance.

From left to right: Lamine Brahimi, Co-Founder and Managing Partner; Dr. Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Co-Founder and CSO; Oren-Olivier Puder, Co-Founder and Chairman; Sébastien Dessimoz,  Co-Founder and Managing Partner (Taurus)

Tech

Rain, Toku Debut Stablecoin Payrolls for Workers in Over 100 Countries

The new offering embeds into popular payroll platforms and allows employers to pay workers in USDC, RLUSD and USDG globally.

Payrolls (Shutterstock)

Finance

Fiserv Joins Stablecoin Fray, Teaming Up With Circle, Paxos, PayPal for Launch on Solana

The Fortune 500 fintech provider plans to roll out its digital asset platform with U.S. dollar stablecoin FIUSD to 10,000 institutions and 6 million merchants.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Trumps May Have Sold Platform Stake as U.S. Stablecoins See Wave of Good News

Based on close readings of World Liberty Financial's website disclosures, the family of President Donald Trump may have dropped out of its majority holding.

World Liberty Financial leadership team. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Standard Chartered Sees New Growth Frontiers in Non-Stablecoin Tokenization

The next phase of real-world asset tokenization will go beyond stablecoins, targeting private markets and illiquid assets, the report said.

Standard Chartered logo on the side of a building.

Finance

Bitcoin DeFi Project Elastos Debuts BTC-Backed Stablecoin BTCD

BTCD developer Elastos' aim is to create a digital version of the Bretton Woods system, with BTC at its core rather than gold.

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