Stablecoins
Data

Circle to acquire Tazapay to expand USDC cross-border payments

Tazapay processes $25 billion in annualized volume and offers payout rails across 100-plus markets, extending Circle’s USDC payments reach. Read the full story at CoinTelegraph…
DeFi

DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked

Anthias projects lower monthly debt accrual under unchanged market conditions, while reserve transfers and supplier cash access remain unverified. The post DeFi lender proposes bad-debt…
Infrastructure

Stablecoin wallets challenge traditional bank accounts as main consumer money hub

Industry leaders debate whether digital dollar wallets will dismantle traditional bank accounts or simply modernize the underlying infrastructure. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Payments

CZ’s Kyrgyzstan visit highlights why state backing cannot guarantee a stablecoin exit

CZ praised KGST on September 5; the separate USDKG project limits direct redemption to institutions, and its issuer has faced UK sanctions since May. The…
Institutional

A two-key breach could hand control of $91 billion in USDT to hackers, report finds

The rating agency’s new framework combines Wall Street financial auditing with Web3 code reviews to evaluate both off-chain reserves and on-chain security. Read Full Story…
Stablecoins

Liquid Sidechain Frozen After ‘White Hat’ Drains Bitcoin Reserve

An Elements software bug let someone mint unbacked L-BTC and peg out roughly 4,000 BTC, and the party holding it says they want the bug…
Infrastructure

A whitehat hacker is holding $320 million in drained Bitcoin until developers prove they patched a fatal network flaw

SideSwap says bug-created L-BTC passed a valid authorization as bridge nodes paused and reserve reconciliation became the restart test. The post A whitehat hacker is…
Infrastructure

Liquid Sidechain Paused After 3,998 BTC Leaves Federation Wallet

Blockstream’s Liquid disabled its bridge nodes on Sunday after almost the entire bitcoin reserve backing L-BTC was withdrawn to a single address, whose owner wrote…
Institutional

Tether-backed Orionx to shut down after audit flags $7M custody gap

Tether-backed Orionx is permanently closing after an audit found more than $7 million in customer assets had moved to wallets outside its custody. Read Full…
DeFi

Fed stablecoin research exposes how the same dollar could count twice in M1 or M2

Their staff note makes classification possible in theory, while reserve overlap and offshore circulation block a clean liquidity measure. The post Fed stablecoin research exposes…