Stablecoins
Payments

Stablecoin adoption to scale on back of big tech firms: Bitwise

Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan says projections tipping stablecoins to hit $4 trillion in value by 2030 could happen if…
May 7, 2026
Payments

Boltz Launches Non-Custodial USDC Swaps, Bridging Bitcoin Directly to Circle’s Regulated Dollar

Bitcoin Magazine Boltz Launches Non-Custodial USDC Swaps, Bridging Bitcoin Directly to Circle’s Regulated Dollar Boltz today enabled trustless Bitcoin-to-USDC swaps…
May 6, 2026
Payments

Reform UK’s Farage Claims 'No Obligation' to Declare Tether Billionaire's $6.7M Gift

Farage insisted that the gift from Christopher Harborne was for his personal security and had been reviewed “from every legal…
May 6, 2026
Payments

Banking lobby attempts to kill Clarity Act’s stablecoin progress as markup is scheduled for next week

US banks are mounting an aggressive lobbying effort to stall the CLARITY Act, even as key US lawmakers signal a…
May 6, 2026
Institutional

Stablecoin industry opposes Bank of England’s unhosted wallet ban

The crypto industry in the UK has come out against the Bank of England’s proposed policy that would ban custodial…
May 6, 2026
DeFi

OpenTrade raises $17M as CEO sees stablecoin yield tailwinds

OpenTrade raised $17 million to expand its stablecoin yield platform, bringing total funding above $30 million as it scales stablecoin…
May 6, 2026
DeFi

Ripple CEO says market structure bill not a ‘done deal,’ despite stablecoin compromise

Brad Garlinghouse addressed attendees at a Tuesday crypto conference on the progress of the CLARITY Act after US lawmakers announced…
May 5, 2026
DeFi

Different voices in product, policy and hiring change crypto outcomes, panelists tell Consensus Miami

Senior leaders from Mastercard, the Crypto Council for Innovation and Clerisy said the right people in the right rooms can…
May 5, 2026
Markets

Lighter Names USDC as Preferred Stablecoin in New Circle Partnership

The agreement spans spot and perpetual trading, settlement, liquidations, and onboarding flows on the decentralized exchange. Read Full Story at…
May 5, 2026
Institutional

Stablecoin proposal still ‘falls short’ of protecting bank deposits: US banks

US Senator Thom Tillis said the current text of the CLARITY Act offers a compromise for the crypto industry and…
May 5, 2026