DeFi
The bill’s progress follows talks on jurisdiction, consumer/developer protections, and stablecoin rewards, with crypto firms backing a yield compromise. Read…
May 9, 2026
Payments
Senators had hoped the issue, which has plagued crypto legislation for months, had been put to bed with a proposed…
May 8, 2026
Payments
The Senate Democrat said Meta’s reported plans to partner with a third-party stablecoin issuer could undermine “competition, privacy… and financial…
May 8, 2026
Institutional
A four-firm pilot settling the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasuries on the XRP Ledger extended a rally…
May 8, 2026
Payments
BlockSec data shows Tether froze over $500 million in USDT across 370 Ethereum and Tron addresses in 30 days, adding…
May 8, 2026
Payments
Stablecoin settlement enables weekend/holiday settlement, reducing trapped capital by over 40%. This improves card economics and financial flexibility for issuers.…
May 8, 2026
Infrastructure
Jesse Spiro, Head of Government Affairs at Tether, said at Consensus Miami 2026 that the midterms will be a key…
May 7, 2026
AI
Bedrock AgentCore Payments turns Amazon’s agent platform into a transactional layer, with Coinbase supplying x402 stablecoin rails and Stripe contributing…
May 7, 2026
Infrastructure
Four financial heavyweights settled tokenized U.S. Treasuries across borders and banks in under five seconds, connecting the XRP Ledger to…
May 7, 2026
Institutional
The framework will enable near-instant conversion between dirham- and dollar-denominated stablecoins under the United Arab Emirates’s regulated payment token system.…
May 7, 2026