Payments
Markets

Crypto card spending tops $1 billion as stablecoins move into everyday purchases

Tracked card volume more than tripled in a year, with USDC and USDT funding over 70% of spending as users…
Aug 23, 2026
Institutional

As foreign investors dump $29 billion in Treasury bills, Washington pivots to stablecoin issuers to back US debt

Foreign investors sent a net $133.5 billion into US financial markets in June. During the same month, they sold $29…
Aug 23, 2026
Institutional

Treasury just put a deadline on offshore stablecoins’ access to US customers

By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin could still move freely across blockchains and yet disappear from the buy menu on…
Aug 22, 2026
Payments

Trump-backed $4 billion USD1 stablecoin has wallet powers its own GitHub does not show

The gap is verifiable, even as Justin Sun’s broader claims of fraud remain unsupported by available evidence. The post Trump-backed…
Aug 21, 2026
Infrastructure

Circle Targets Sept. 16 for Arc Public Mainnet Launch

Official materials name Circle and 11 founding validators, while an Arc documentation page describes approximately 20 validators at launch. Read…
Aug 21, 2026
DeFi

Tether-backed Antalpha’s loan TVL declined $696 million as its gold bet returned a $22 million loss

Loans facilitated fell to $1.353 billion and guidance points below the second-quarter result, while Aurelion’s gold positions dominated the earnings…
Aug 20, 2026
DeFi

Tether-backed Antalpha’s loan TVL declined $696 million as its gold bet returned a $22 million loss

Loans facilitated fell to $1.353 billion and guidance points below the second-quarter result, while Aurelion’s gold positions dominated the earnings…
Aug 20, 2026
Institutional

SEC faces Aug. 20 deadline to unlock $123 million recovery fund for Terra investors

The money is collected, but eligibility, loss calculations and payment timing were not public early Thursday. The post SEC faces…
Aug 20, 2026
Institutional

Trader who made $49 million shorting crypto lost $24 million on ether in 12 seconds

The Hyperliquid wallet known as pension-usdt.eth was forced out of a 50,000 ETH short as ether surged, with five liquidation…
Aug 20, 2026
Institutional

Bitcoin.com integrates UAE-registered US dollar stablecoin into self-custodial wallet

The integration expands access to USDU, the UAE’s first central bank-registered US dollar stablecoin, as it builds distribution beyond institutional…
Aug 19, 2026