Payments
Payments

Farage Says He Can Spend Tether Billionaire’s $6.7M Gift ‘On Ferraris’ if He Wants

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called the gift from Christopher Harborne a “private matter” amid a standards investigation. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Infrastructure

OpenPayd secures MiCA license as stablecoin adoption grows in Europe

OpenPayd, which provides infrastructure to companies including Kraken crypto exchange, can now offer regulated crypto services across Europe under MiCA. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com…
Institutional

Congress Passes Fed CBDC Ban Through 2030, Sends Bill to Trump

Both chambers of Congress have passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency…
Infrastructure

Chainlink joins European and Korean bank consortia to develop FX settlement network

Banks across Europe and South Korea will study whether regulated euro and won stablecoins can enable real-time cross-border foreign exchange settlement. Read Full Story at…
Infrastructure

Ripple gives RLUSD a MiCA foothold in Europe and route into African payments – but is volume there?

Ripple is pursuing a coordinated expansion of its stablecoin infrastructure across Europe and Africa, combining a strategic investment in payments company Flutterwave with preliminary regulatory…
Industry News

US Senate Passes Housing Bill With Four-Year Fed CBDC Ban

A bipartisan housing bill the Senate passed 85-5 Monday would block a Fed digital dollar through 2030, and now heads to the House. Read the…
Institutional

SoFi's Bank-Issued Stablecoin Hits $150M as Bullish Becomes First CEX to List It

SoFiUSD, the first stablecoin issued by a US national bank, crossed $150 million in circulating supply on Tuesday as Bullish became the first centralized exchange…
Payments

Synthetix Governance Votes to Retire sUSD, Pay Holders in Vested SNX

Synthetix governance has moved to retire sUSD entirely under SIP-423, introduced June 12. The proposal would freeze the stablecoin contract and pay all holders back…
Institutional

British pound stablecoins capped to $53B ceiling as Bank of England sets out stablecoin rules

The new framework removes wallet caps, yet keeps systemic sterling stablecoins far below dollar-token scale at launch. The post British pound stablecoins capped to $53B…
Institutional

U.S. Senate passes housing bill that carries four-year ban on a Fed CBDC

The idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency — though little more than a research topic at the Federal Reserve — may be getting…