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Visa Taps Onchain Lending to Finance Stablecoin Card Programs

The payment processor giant is pairing payment settlement data with blockchain lending tools to help fintechs and stablecoin-linked card programs…
Sep 8, 2026
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Castle Opens Its Bitcoin Savings Stack to Individuals

Bitcoin Magazine Castle Opens Its Bitcoin Savings Stack to Individuals The Miami startup is bringing 12% STRC yield to personal…
Sep 8, 2026
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Visa combines VisaNet data with onchain lending to power stablecoin card working capital

Visa’s stablecoin settlement volume surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15x year over year. Now it wants blockchain…
Sep 8, 2026
DeFi

Cardano’s Leios 6x scaling breakthrough comes with a much harder ADA problem

The developers’ conditional 2029 fee benchmark depends on sustained paying usage, leaving delegators, pool operators and users exposed to different…
Sep 8, 2026
DeFi

How Curve's soft liquidation model lets borrowers survive market drawdowns

Data tracked by lending platform Curve data tracked 704 soft-liquidation instances lasting a median 14.5 days, showing how some DeFi…
Sep 8, 2026
DeFi

Bitcoin slips to $78,800 as BNB and DeFi tokens buck the selloff

Bitcoin fell 0.42% since midnight UTC to $78,874, but the CoinDesk 20 rose 0.2% and the memecoin index gained 0.41%…
Sep 8, 2026
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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…
Sep 7, 2026
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…
Sep 7, 2026
DeFi

Bitcoin chips away at weekend upside as $80K hangs in the balance

Bitcoin price fell 2% in low-liquidity conditions as the US Labor Day holiday saw $80,000 once again slip from bulls’…
Sep 7, 2026
DeFi

National Sheriffs’ Association Goes Neutral on the Clarity Act After Warning It Would Shield Crypto Crime

Four months after telling senators the bill would hand mixers and DeFi a blanket AML exemption, the sheriffs’ group says…
Sep 7, 2026