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XRP slips below $1 even as a Korean regional bank adopts Ripple Payments

Jeonbuk Bank will use Ripple’s 24/7 cross-border payment service for business remittances, but it is unknown whether the flows will use XRP or Ripple’s RLUSD…
Infrastructure

Deel Takes Its DLUSD Stablecoin Wallet to More Than 80 Countries

The payroll platform’s dollar balance, issued through Stripe’s Bridge and settled on Tempo, is now live across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.…
AI

What Stripe's $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Actually Means for AI

Stripe just bought the layer that decides which AI model answers your prompt—and it was already collecting the money for it. Read Full Story at…
AI

Stripe’s Reported $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys Micropayments Without a Blockchain

OpenRouter meters AI usage against prepaid deposits and charges 5% on crypto top-ups against 5.5% on card purchases made through Stripe. Stripe co-incubated Tempo to…
Institutional

U.S. Treasury Department proposes GENIUS Act stablecoin rule

The Treasury proposal would establish some of the core definitions and jurisdictions in the law Congress completed last year. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Institutional

OCC Grants Preliminary Conditional Approval to World Liberty Trust Company, Clearing a Path to Take Over USD1 Issuance

The OCC’s conditional approval would let a Trump-linked trust bank take over issuance of the $4 billion USD1 stablecoin from BitGo, drawing an immediate legislative…
DeFi

The stablecoin yield clash that won't go away has banks, crypto battling over tradition

The bankers want people kept in lower-yield deposits for the good of the financial system as it’s existed for generations, and their argument is gaining…
DeFi

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave World Liberty Financial, a DeFi venture associated with President Donald Trump, preliminary conditional approval to…
Institutional

Trump-Linked World Liberty Gets Conditional Bank Charter for USD1 Stablecoin

The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin from BitGo. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
DeFi

Galaxy lowers CLARITY Act odds to 10%

Galaxy cited unresolved ethics, stablecoin yield and developer protection issues, along with a narrow Senate window when lawmakers return in September. Read Full Story at…