Stablecoins
Institutional

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Acquires Another 1,587 Bitcoin for $100 Million as Holdings Reach 846,842 BTC

Strategy bought 1,587 bitcoin for about $100 million at an average of $63,024, lifting holdings to 846,842 BTC, while also raising its USD Reserve to…
Markets

Tether Gold now has a dedicated options market on Bybit

These options, settled in USDT, let traders hedge risk, speculate on gold prices. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Payments

Paradigm Leads $9 Million Round in Latin American Stablecoin App El Dorado

Paradigm has led a roughly $9 million round in El Dorado, the stablecoin-powered payments app that has signed up more than a million users across…
AI

SIREN Token Crashes 95% in a Week After Whale Sells 670M Tokens for $64.8M

A single dominant wallet offloaded roughly 92% of SIREN’s total supply across two days, collecting $64.8 million in Tether and gutting the BNB Chain AI…
Institutional

Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

The Layer 1’s gasless stablecoin design pushed transfer throughput to nearly $65 billion since June 10, recasting Sui as a fee-free settlement rail for institutional…
DeFi

Did Tether just freeze $72M in USDT with no link to a hack in Monero money laundering sting?

A reported $120.2 million USDT routing through Monero left about $72 million frozen, but the market impact showed how quickly traceable liquidity can move toward…
DeFi

World Liberty Financial Pays UFC Freedom 250 Fighters in USD1 at White House

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial funded a $250,000 Performance of the Night bonus pool at UFC Freedom 250, distributing the awards in its USD1 stablecoin on…
Institutional

From reinsurance to structured credit: The financial products you didn’t know Bitcoin was powering

Everyone knows about the ETFs, but almost nobody knows about the dozens of obscure institutional products being built around Bitcoin while the funds soak up…
Data

Hyperliquid Passes AQA v2 to Fund More HYPE Buybacks

90% of USDC yield on Hyperliquid will fund HYPE buybacks starting Oct. 3, creating a revenue stream that scales with the platform’s USDC TVL. Read…
Institutional

Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve

The largest company on public markets now holds bitcoin as a treasury reserve, not as a business model. Its first earnings cycles will test which…