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Institutional

Philippine bank BPI plans stablecoin payments pilot

The Philippine bank is preparing a stablecoin settlement pilot intended to speed up and reduce the cost of overseas payments…
Jul 24, 2026
DeFi

Goldman Sachs CEO Breaks With Wall Street to Back Crypto Clarity Act

Solomon’s endorsement splits with JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon and banking trade groups, who warn the bill’s stablecoin-yield provisions could pull…
Jul 23, 2026
Institutional

Nasdaq-Listed Zhibao Wants a Bitcoin Treasury, Plans to Sell $220M in Stock for BTC

A Shanghai-based insurance-tech company trading below $1 wants to build a bitcoin treasury by taking BTC directly as payment for…
Jul 23, 2026
Institutional

Tassat wants to help smaller banks tap the trillion-dollar stablecoin boom before Wall Street lock them out

The former Signet developer aims to launch early next year a marketplace connecting stablecoin issuers with regional lenders to manage…
Jul 23, 2026
Markets

Balance Coin Crashes 99% After Attacker Feeds a Fake Bitcoin Price Into 42DAO

An oracle-manipulation exploit let an attacker liquidate collateralized vaults that should have been safe, netting about $912,000 and collapsing the…
Jul 22, 2026
DeFi

BitMine gets 98% of revenue from staking as a decade-long contract complicates an early exit

Ethereum Tower can keep its 2% interest and may elect continuing fees or a formula-based payment after a covered termination.…
Jul 21, 2026
Institutional

Augustus Raises $180 Million to Build a Stablecoin-Ready 'Global Dollar Bank'

The Tiger Global-led round values the startup at $1 billion as it wires stablecoin rails directly into a federally chartered…
Jul 21, 2026
Institutional

Jack Mallers Steps Down as Twenty One Capital CEO as Tether Merger Unravels

The Strike founder is leaving the Tether-controlled treasury company after a board disagreement, as a proposed three-way merger with Strike…
Jul 21, 2026
Industry News

Movement Labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy months after token scandal and strategic overhaul

The filing comes after months of upheaval that included a controversial market-making agreement, an internal investigation into its MOVE token…
Jul 21, 2026
Institutional

Bank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million Users

Phase 1 of Project Hangang opened 81,000 wallets with 42% of them using the CBDC. Phase 2 is bigger, and…
Jul 20, 2026