Stablecoins
Payments

Initia Halts L1 and Rollups After Reported Mint Exploit

Analyst Spreek estimated $2.6 million had been cashed out; Ethereum records show stablecoin swaps and a later 1,135.5 ETH transfer.…
Oct 23, 2026
AI

Tether’s own AI study shows when buying a laptop costs more than cloud tokens

QVAC’s dense-model example falls short of a new laptop’s cheap-cloud break-even, even using refreshed Singapore prices. Read the full story…
Oct 23, 2026
DeFi

Bitcoin’s $80,000 recovery faces liquidity questions as Binance’s Tether flows swing $14 billion

The 2026 Ethereum and Tron totals measure a treasury route, without proving an equivalent cash exit from crypto. Read the…
Oct 23, 2026
Payments

Blumenthal Asks Tether to Detail Every Payment to Nxum, Bo Hines’ Consulting Firm

The ranking member of the Senate’s investigations subcommittee gave Tether and Nxum until early November to turn over contracts, payment…
Oct 23, 2026
Payments

Ex-Circle Engineer Takes Trump to Court Over Emirati Payments to World Liberty Financial

Circle reportedly says it did not authorize the derivative suit filed on its behalf, which accuses Trump of taking foreign…
Oct 23, 2026
Institutional

HSBC Launches RedCoin Stablecoin and Plans to Let Customers Buy Tokenized Funds With It

The bank’s payments app will let customers switch on stablecoin wallets for transfers and payments at more than 100,000 merchants,…
Oct 23, 2026
DeFi

Uniswap Swap Costs: What Reduces Your Output and What Is Paid Separately

A historical ETH-to-USDC receipt shows how deductions reconcile. UniswapX handles network costs differently from a classic pool swap. Read Full…
Oct 22, 2026
Payments

Senate's top Democratic investigator looking into Tether payments to Bo Hines' firm

Senator Richard Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the investigations subcommittee, added a probe of the ex-White House crypto adviser to…
Oct 22, 2026
Payments

Circle shareholder sues Trump, World Liberty and Steve Witkoff over crypto deals

According to a Circle shareholder, the US president’s “corruption” through USD1 left the company unable to compete with stablecoins, harming…
Oct 22, 2026
Payments

Circle Shareholder Sues Trump, Alleging Unconstitutional Profits From $2B UAE Crypto Deals

Bitcoin Magazine Circle Shareholder Sues Trump, Alleging Unconstitutional Profits From $2B UAE Crypto Deals A shareholder of stablecoin giant Circle…
Oct 22, 2026