Circle and Nomura are reportedly partnering to enable stablecoin-based foreign exchange settlement for Japanese companies as the country’s regulated blockchain-based financial infrastructure expands. Read Full…

Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bipartisan bill that would have barred the Fed from issuing a digital dollar, and his standoff with Congress…

President Donald Trump has spent his second term trying to close the door on a U.S. central bank digital currency. On Wednesday, he canceled a…

Japan’s financial regulator cleared the U.S. dollar-backed token as a new category of payment instrument, letting SBI VC Trade offer it to institutions and retail.…

Daya, a stablecoin-native payments startup focused on African businesses, has raised $2.4 million in pre-seed funding, the company told Unchained on Wednesday. The round was…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…