Stablecoins
Payments

Stablecoins could save South Korean merchants up to $3.8 billion a year, budget office says

South Korea’s budget office warned that stablecoin adoption could reduce banks’ roles as credit intermediaries and potentially destabilize token pegs…
Sep 8, 2026
DeFi

DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked

Anthias projects lower monthly debt accrual under unchanged market conditions, while reserve transfers and supplier cash access remain unverified. The…
Sep 7, 2026
DeFi

DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked

Anthias projects lower monthly debt accrual under unchanged market conditions, while reserve transfers and supplier cash access remain unverified. The…
Sep 7, 2026
Infrastructure

Stablecoin wallets challenge traditional bank accounts as main consumer money hub

Industry leaders debate whether digital dollar wallets will dismantle traditional bank accounts or simply modernize the underlying infrastructure. Read Full…
Sep 7, 2026
Stablecoins

Liquid Sidechain Frozen After ‘White Hat’ Drains Bitcoin Reserve

An Elements software bug let someone mint unbacked L-BTC and peg out roughly 4,000 BTC, and the party holding it…
Sep 7, 2026
Infrastructure

Liquid Sidechain Paused After 3,998 BTC Leaves Federation Wallet

Blockstream’s Liquid disabled its bridge nodes on Sunday after almost the entire bitcoin reserve backing L-BTC was withdrawn to a…
Sep 6, 2026
Institutional

Tether-backed Orionx to shut down after audit flags $7M custody gap

Tether-backed Orionx is permanently closing after an audit found more than $7 million in customer assets had moved to wallets…
Sep 6, 2026
DeFi

The AMC Fight Turned Into An Industry Argument Over Which Tokenized Stock Model Wins

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams compared Robinhood’s and Ondo’s stock tokens to early stablecoins on Friday, hours after Dinari co-founder Gabriel…
Sep 5, 2026
DeFi

Fed stablecoin research exposes how the same dollar could count twice in M1 or M2

Their staff note makes classification possible in theory, while reserve overlap and offshore circulation block a clean liquidity measure. The…
Sep 5, 2026
Stablecoins

Surprise nonfarm payrolls print sends Bitcoin back below 80K

The US economy added far more jobs than expected in August, pressuring Bitcoin lower as traders repriced the odds of…
Sep 4, 2026