Stablecoins
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USDT Returns to Bitcoin: RGB and UTEXO Enable Private Lightning Settlements

Bitcoin Magazine USDT Returns to Bitcoin: RGB and UTEXO Enable Private Lightning Settlements After years of development, UTEXO—backed by Tether—rolls…
Jul 6, 2026
Institutional

Circle’s USDC is leaving Tether behind in the stablecoin volume race, new data from Visa shows

As Wall Street banks adopt digital currencies for faster settlements, overall trading volume spiked 63% in just a single month.…
Jul 6, 2026
Institutional

Strategy sells 3,588 Bitcoin for $216M to fund dividends, keeps $2.55B reserve intact

Strategy sold $216 million in Bitcoin to fund its dividend payments, as wealth manager Bernstein maintained its year-end Bitcoin price…
Jul 6, 2026
Payments

Samsung and Dunamu Say They Never Agreed to Join Open Standard’s OUSD Stablecoin Consortium

Samsung, Dunamu, and other South Korean firms say they were named as OUSD founding partners without ever signing on, raising…
Jul 6, 2026
Payments

XRPL stablecoins surge to $900M, but the breakout trend is not RLUSD

Stablecoin supply on the XRP Ledger has climbed to nearly $890 million, up 20.56% over the past 30 days. Ripple’s…
Jul 6, 2026
Payments

XRPL stablecoins surge to $900M, but the breakout trend is not RLUSD

Stablecoin supply on the XRP Ledger has climbed to nearly $890 million, up 20.56% over the past 30 days. Ripple’s…
Jul 6, 2026
Payments

Funds are buying crypto stocks. Are they exposed to less risk — or more?

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought roughly $77 million of crypto stocks in June, adding $44 million of Coinbase (COIN), $25.25…
Jul 5, 2026
Payments

Funds are buying crypto stocks. Are they exposed to less risk — or more?

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought roughly $77 million of crypto stocks in June, adding $44 million of Coinbase (COIN), $25.25…
Jul 5, 2026
Payments

Why Binance’s reported $2B Mesh investment could decide who controls stablecoin payments

The signal is about who controls the wallet-to-merchant path that makes tokenized dollars spendable. The post Why Binance’s reported $2B…
Jul 5, 2026
DeFi

Passive Income on Ethereum for All: How Rocket Pool Scales Liquid Staking

Rocket Pool’s Saturn 1 upgrade reshapes the math for RPL and rETH holders. Darren Langley, GM of Rocket Pool, sits…
Jul 5, 2026