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Russia Passes Law to Regulate Crypto Exchanges, Keeps Payment Ban in Place

Bitcoin Magazine Russia Passes Law to Regulate Crypto Exchanges, Keeps Payment Ban in Place New crypto regulations have been signed into law. But citizens in…
Industry News

Circle Names BlackRock, Visa, ICE and DTCC Among 11 Founding Arc Validators

Circle’s own disclaimer says Arc will be “operated by a permissioned validator set” and has not been reviewed by the New York State Department of…
AI

Cloudflare Opens Stablecoin Wallet Handles as It Builds the Buy Side of Agent Payments

Cloudflare is rolling out Account Wallets for humans and Virtual Wallets for AI agents, settling in stablecoins over x402, with funding still to come. The…
AI

Cloudflare introduces wallets for AI agents, plans stablecoin payments

Cloudflare introduced programmable Wallets for AI agents and said payment features using stablecoins will launch in a future update. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →
Industry News

Open USD rattled Circle’s stock, but its key backers still support USDC

Executives at Coinbase, Visa and Mastercard said they plan to support multiple stablecoins, suggesting Open USD is another payments rail rather than a direct replacement…
Institutional

Mastercard completes $1.8B BVNK acquisition in stablecoin push

Mastercard said the tie-up would help banks, fintechs and enterprises expand stablecoin payments, payouts, settlement and treasury services. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →
Infrastructure

BlackRock Launches Tokenized Money Market Funds on Solana, Ethereum

BlackRock launched a tokenized money market fund for stablecoin reserves that uses Solana alongside Ethereum. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Institutional

Circle slides after Morgan Stanley downgrade, cut in price target

The bank said tokenized money market funds, Open USD and slower USDC growth could weigh on the stablecoin issuer’s earnings. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com…
Institutional

US Sanctions Iranian Firms Behind Bitcoin-Paid Strait of Hormuz Insurance

Treasury says the scheme forced ships to buy coverage against risks Iran itself created, and took payment in bitcoin to dodge Western sanctions. The post…
Payments

Tether Earns $1.5 Billion in Q2 While Its Reserve Cushion Halves to $4.1 Billion

A profitable quarter still ended with about half the buffer it started with, and the Big Four audit Tether commissioned in March has yet to…