Payments
Payments

Circle Faces Backlash for Failing to Freeze Stolen USDC During $285 Million Drift Exploit

The post Circle Faces Backlash for Failing to Freeze Stolen USDC During $285 Million Drift Exploit appeared first on Unchained.…
Apr 2, 2026
Infrastructure

Non-USD stablecoin senders on Solana nearly tripled year-over-year, led by EURC and BRZ: Dune

Solana’s non-USD stablecoin adoption surged nearly threefold in the past year, driven by EURC and BRZ growth alongside institutional integrations…
Apr 1, 2026
Payments

Tether hired top HSBC gold traders, then cut them weeks before auditors arrive

Paolo Ardoino said that Tether wanted to allocate 10% to 15% of its $20 billion proprietary investment portfolio to physical…
Apr 1, 2026
Payments

Tether hired top HSBC gold traders, then cut them weeks before auditors arrive

Paolo Ardoino said that Tether wanted to allocate 10% to 15% of its $20 billion proprietary investment portfolio to physical…
Apr 1, 2026
Markets

Fed’s Barr invokes Panic of 1907 in warning on stablecoin rules

US Fed Governor Michael Barr said clearer US rules could help the market grow, but warned that GENIUS Act implementation…
Apr 1, 2026
Payments

Latin America’s Mercado Libre Pulls the Plug on Its Crypto Coin

Latin America’s e-commerce giant Mercado Libre quietly killed its Mercado Coin loyalty token—pivoting to its own stablecoin. Read Full Story…
Mar 31, 2026
AI

Base Doubles Down on Global Markets, Stablecoins, and AI Agents

Coinbase’s Layer 2 shifts focus to tokenizing every major asset class and scaling stablecoin payments. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io…
Mar 31, 2026
Markets

CLARITY Act deadline in weeks could kill stablecoin earnings and push money into Bitcoin

Senate Banking is targeting the second half of April for a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with…
Mar 31, 2026
Markets

Cross-Border FX Startup OpenFX Raises $94 Million, Hits $45 Billion in Annual Volume

OpenFX, the cross-border payments startup using stablecoins as a settlement layer, raised $94 million in a Series A led by…
Mar 31, 2026
Payments

Square Begins Automatic Bitcoin Payment Rollout to Millions of U.S. Merchants

Bitcoin Magazine Square Begins Automatic Bitcoin Payment Rollout to Millions of U.S. Merchants Square began automatically enabling bitcoin payments for…
Mar 30, 2026