Stablecoins

Stablecoins

Finance

Haycen Secures Stablecoin Issuance License in Bermuda

The company provides stablecoin-based products for non-bank lenders in global trade.

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Policy

U.S. Stablecoin Law Jolts EU Into Rethinking Digital Euro Strategy: FT

The GENIUS Act's passage caught many in Europe off guard and sparked concerns dollar-backed stablecoins could tighten America’s grip on cross-border payments.

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Finance

South Korea’s Top Banks Said to Meet Tether, Circle on Stablecoin Partnerships: Report

In separate meetings, executives from Shinhan, Hana, KB Financial and Woori Bank will explore the role of dollar-pegged and won-pegged stablecoins in the country.

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Markets

Stablecoin Market Could Hit $1.2T by 2028, Maybe Affecting U.S. Government Debt Yields: Coinbase

The target translates to stablecoins growing almost five-fold from the current market size of $270 billion.

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Markets

Stablecoins, Tokenization Put Pressure on Money Market Funds: Bank of America

Stablecoin demand for Treasuries won’t meaningfully shift T-bill dynamics, but instead poses a bigger challenge to money market funds, the report said.

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Finance

MetaMask Joins Stablecoin Race With mUSD, Backed by M0 Protocol and Stripe's Bridge

MetaMask's digital dollar, confirmed on Thursday, combines Bridge's regulatory and reserve management and M0’s blockchain expertise.

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CoinDesk Indices

24/7 Settlement: Why Instant Liquidity Changes Everything

Uniform Labs’ Will Beeson says that the future of finance is not merely faster payments — it is a world where capital is never idle, where the trade-off between liquidity and yield disappears and where the foundations of financial markets are rebuilt for an always-on, global economy.

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Markets

Plasma's $250M USDT Yield Program on Binance Filled in Less Than an Hour

The on-chain yield program quickly attracted investors with offering Plasma's XPL native token rewards.

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Policy

Crypto Lobby Pushes Back Against Bank Effort to Rewrite U.S. Stablecoin Law

Industry groups said repealing key provisions of the GENIUS Act would stifle competition and deny consumers meaningful choice.

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Policy

Ripple’s Global Co-Head of Policy on Four Best Practices for Digital Asset Custody

Ripple distills a Singapore workshop into four custody best practices: compliance by design, tailored models, operational resilience and governance.

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