Stablecoins entered 2026 with an ambitious narrative around disrupting card networks, replacing traditional payment rails and fundamentally reshaping consumer commerce. This week’s headlines suggested a...
Every industry has its defining rivalry. McDonald’s and Burger King; Walmart and Amazon; Microsoft and Apple. In digital assets, that rivalry was bitcoin and ethereum....
Today’s stablecoins have structural flaws that could impact macroeconomic and financial stability if the technology is more widely adopted, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in...
A four-year ban on the development of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) is included in a housing affordability bill that was passed Monday...
Chainlink is reportedly joining several dozen international banks on a cross-border stablecoin payments project. The goal is to bring about real-time, stablecoin-based cross-border payments for...
The most consequential developments in blockchain finance today are no longer happening at the edges of the financial system. They are happening at its core....
The governor of Illinois signed a law that will impose a 0.2% tax on customers’ use of digital asset services, including exchange, transfer or custody activities, according...
Cross-border payments/stablecoin settlement infrastructure company Trace Finance has raised $32 million in new funding. The Series A financing, announced Wednesday (June 17), will help Trace...
The question for banks and payment players isn’t whether crypto is becoming compliant, but whether compliance finally makes crypto useful. For years, crypto firms argued...