Tagged: stablecoins

September 16, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Velocity has added $10 million to its Series A, bringing the round to $48 million after a group of traditional finance and crypto investors joined the raise. Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures and Ripple participated alongside Haun Ventures, Translink Capital and Mirana Ventures, according to… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 12:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has opened coverage of Sky, the DeFi protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, with a long-dated bullish view on its governance token. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets research, put an end-2028 target of $0.325 on SKY—about five times… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) shares rallied. Today, the story is quite different, as shares of Coinbase are now down by over 10% following the disappointing vote on the CLARITY Act. While the vote was always expected to be close, in the end, supporters couldn’t even break the 50-vote… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 10:47 am By JD Alois  |  

FUD, or fear, uncertainty, and doubt, can effectively influence individuals’ hearts and minds. The unknown can lead to risk, and the possibility of something bad happening, even when the probability is low, can drive decisions. FUD is what the banking industry has leveraged to strip… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple USD (RLUSD) has grown into one of the larger regulated dollar stablecoins, with net circulating supply recently topping an all-time high of about $2.44 billion before settling near $2.42 billion. That expansion looks like a success story for Ripple’s dual-chain product. A closer look… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 9:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoins, in one way or another, dominate this edition of Web3 thoughts of the week. Lawyers speak out on the CLARITY Act, too. Stablecoins “The number of issuers is expanding quickly. A consortium of 21 financial institutions plans to launch a dollar stablecoin in 2027,… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins are beginning to rewrite the playbook for global remittances, a market that has operated on aging infrastructure for decades. A Solana Foundation report argues that digital dollars on high-throughput blockchains can cut costs, speed settlement, and expand access in ways traditional money-transfer rails have… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Diameter Pay has raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand a payments platform built around U.S. dollar accounts, conventional payment rails, and stablecoin on- and off-ramps. CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction co-led the equity round. SixThirty Ventures, the Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enterprise demand for stablecoin-backed cards is accelerating, and a new partnership is designed to shorten the path from concept to live product. Wirex, a global stablecoin infrastructure company and principal member of both Visa and Mastercard, has brought Tempo onto its platform as a settlement… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram has introduced a new spending product that turns a dollar-linked digital balance into everyday payments. The company said the MoneyGram Card is now available to eligible users in Colombia, marking the first live market for a Visa-branded card backed by stablecoins rather than a… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Payment stablecoins will soon be ubiquitous. Less crypto and more a modern approach to transferring value, stablecoins can enable faster, lower-cost payments if implemented correctly. Fighting against stablecoins makes little sense. Yesterday, Moov and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) announced they’re working together to help community banks enable… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US Bank (NYSE: USB) has completed a live internal pilot that moved value between its North American and European operations using USBDC, a dollar-backed stablecoin issued by the bank itself. The transfer was an intra-group payment rather than a customer transaction, and it ran on… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), M0, and MoonPay have taken PYUSDx from a February preview to a live developer platform. The stack lets companies issue custom on-chain dollars that sit on top of PayPal USD (PYUSD), rather than forcing each team to build reserves, issuance, and liquidity… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BVNK and Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ) have joined forces to give companies a simpler way to turn stablecoins into everyday spending tools. The two firms announced a partnership that will let Marqeta clients add digital-dollar functionality to cards, wallets, and other financial products used by both… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Tazapay, a Singapore-based specialist in business-to-business cross-border payments. The announcement, made on September 8, 2026, positions the transaction as a way to broaden Circle’s payments infrastructure and… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland’s financial sector has taken another step toward exploring a digital Swiss franc. On 8 September 2026, organizers of the CHF Stablecoin Sandbox confirmed that the project has entered its live testing phase and that two additional partners — SIX and TWINT — have joined… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoin consortium “Twenty-one banks backing a stablecoin is the clearest sign yet that the growth in blockchain rails is coming from TradFi now, not crypto. Nobody’s debating whether public chains work for settlement anymore, just who gets to own the issuer. “The real losers here… Read More

September 5, 2026 @ 2:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BCP Technologies has completed its first live purchase of a tokenised US Treasury bill using its sterling stablecoin, marking a notable moment for on-chain settlement in the UK market. The London-based issuer said it bought Archax’s $GOVY tokenised T-bill and settled the trade in tGBP,… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore’s central bank has taken a further step toward turning its long-planned stablecoin regime into law. On 1 September 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a consultation on proposed changes to the Payment Services Act 2019. The package would give legal force to… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) and OKX have announced a collaboration aimed at deepening the role of USDC across the exchange’s trading products. In a Sept. 1, 2026 post, Circle said the two companies are working together to increase USDC liquidity and trading utility on OKX, giving… Read More