Stablecoins

Stablecoins

Opinion

Stablecoins Were Meant to Disrupt Finance. Instead, They Became Idle Cash.

O’Connor argues that crypto’s clearest success story has scaled as money but not as capital.

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Finance

Banking rails are moving past the 'stablecoin winner' narrative: Sygnum

Digital asset bank Sygnum says institutional clients want multiple tokenized cash instruments operating interchangeably on a single platform.

UBS HQ Zurich (JaierRT/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Tether leads $1.4 billion funding round in German robotics company Neura

The investment is part of the stablecoin giant’s expansion into industries outside of crypto.

Robotics. (Gabimedia/Pixabay)

Finance

Netomi CEO says $5 trillion AI customer experience market could boost stablecoin demand

Puneet Mehta, a former high-level Wall Street engineer and data scientist, said the rapid expansion of AI enterprise software will increase demand for stablecoins and blockchain.

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Finance

Japan's three largest banks aim for joint stablecoin issue by March

MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho will establish a council to explore operational frameworks and prepare for the issuance of stablecoins.

Japan flag in front of a building (Roméo A./Unsplash)

Finance

Abra’s Bill Barhydt says Wall Street’s next crypto bet is tokenization

As Abra prepares for a Nasdaq debut, CEO Bill Barhydt is betting tokenized yield products and onchain lending will drive the next phase of crypto wealth management.

Abra's Bill Barhydt

Opinion

Meta is paying creators in Stablecoins. Spending them is someone else's problem

Meta’s decision to pay creators in USDC validates stablecoins as a mainstream disbursement tool, Joslyn suggests, but it also exposes the industry’s unresolved problem: moving seamlessly from digital dollars to usable local currency.

Meta headquarters

Finance

America’s largest banks are building a new digital currency network to stop a massive deposit drain

America’s biggest banks are launching tokenized deposits to compete with stablecoins, opening a new front in the race to become the dominant form of cash on blockchain networks.

Wall Street street signs. (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Videos

'I will not vote for Clarity until we address ethics': Sen. Angela Alsobrooks

Senator Angela Alsobrooks joins hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti to discuss the three outstanding issues she needs resolved before voting Clarity off the Senate floor. Plus, insights into Jamie Dimon's criticism over stablecoin yield. And, former Congressman George Santos named person of the week for the Kalshi insider trading investigation.

'I will not vote for Clarity until we address ethics': Sen. Angela Alsobrooks

Markets

'Dr. Doom'-backed Atlas Capital CEO says bitcoin could crash 70% before reaching $500,000

Backed by economist Nouriel Roubini, a long-time anti-bitcoin advocate, and known as 'Dr. Doom,' the Atlas CEO, Reza Bundy, shot a short-term warning for bitcoin but stayed bullish in the long-term.

Atlas CEO Reza Bundy predicts a massive financial crisis is incoming, which will send bitcoin down below the $30,000 level. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)