Stablecoins
DeFi

Banking Regulator Floats New Stablecoin Yield Rules—Do They Hurt Coinbase?

The proposed rules would limit the ability of third parties to pass stablecoin rewards on to users, but experts are split on what the language…
Industry News

USDD Protocol Experiences 20.6% Asset Withdrawal Amid Market Volatility

The USDD decentralized finance protocol recorded significant asset withdrawals totaling $140 million, reducing its total value locked from approximately $680 million to $540 million. The…
Payments

Tether froze $4.2B in tokens tied to illicit activity in 3 years: Report

Tether blocked billions in USDt tied to scams and laundering cases as authorities increasingly rely on stablecoin issuers to halt suspicious funds. Read Full Story…
Industry News

Tether Compliance Actions Target $4.2B in Illicit Token Holdings

Digital asset issuer Tether Holdings has frozen approximately $4.2 billion in USDT tokens associated with illicit financial activities across a three-year timeframe, underscoring growing cooperation…
Institutional

Crypto Biz: A Bitcoin treasury shareholder revolt

Bitcoin treasury companies face investor backlash as stablecoin issuers post strong earnings and legacy payment giants navigate mounting pressure. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →
Payments

MoonPay and M0 Launch PYUSDx Stablecoin Development Framework

MoonPay and M0 have introduced PYUSDx, a platform aimed at simplifying the creation and management of application-specific stablecoins backed by Paypal’s PYUSD. Read Full Story…
AI

Analysis: Block’s retreat to 2019 scale could be a hint of deeper shifts in payments economics

While Jack Dorsey cites AI-enabled productivity gains as the reason for Block’s cuts, the deeper shift is in payments plumbing: stablecoin settlement threatens to compress…
DeFi

World Liberty Financial ties voting power to staking as USD1 supply tops $4.7 Billion

The proposal redirects stablecoin arbitrage from institutional market makers to large token holders and links voting rights to capital commitment. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com…
DeFi

World Liberty Financial Restructures Tokenomics to Reward Long-Term Capital Commitment

The decentralized finance platform has unveiled a governance overhaul that prioritizes stakeholder alignment through mandatory staking for voting participation. This strategic pivot aims to capture…
Infrastructure

Circle Stock Jumps 40% on Q4 Earnings

The stablecoin company had a strong 2025 and is exploring a token launch for Arc, its new Layer 1 blockchain. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io…