Nothing visibly changed in American payments when the clock struck midnight on Saturday (July 11). Consumers still used cards, bank accounts and cash, and businesses still moved funds through banking networks. Yet the United States had nonetheless made a consequential architectural choice about the future...
Stablecoins have drawn attention for how they move money. Custody may prove to be the business that help solidify banks’ positioning in the institutional market. Traditional financial institutions (FIs) already possess traits corporate treasurers value: regulated custody, established payment infrastructure, treasury services and long-standing client...
In a winner-take-most market, firms typically want to be the ones winning and taking the most. Stable coins are shaping up to be exactly that kind of market. On Wednesday (July 1), Payward, the parent company behind the crypto platform Kraken, completed its acquisition of...
Robinhood Markets has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain that the company said is purpose-built for real-world assets. Robinhood Chain is built using the Arbitrum Platform to institutional standards, is natively connected to Robinhood’s onchain users, and has deep integrations with Alchemy,...
July 09, 2026
Stablecoins have drawn attention for how they move money. Custody may prove to be the business that help solidify banks’ positioning in the institutional market. Traditional financial institutions (FIs) already possess traits corporate treasurers value: regulated custody, established payment infrastructure, treasury services and long-standing client relationships. If those services become the operating center for institutional […]
May 14, 2026
Regulations can create winners and losers, as well as kick off unpredictable second-order effects. Most industries already know this. The digital asset sector, however, could be about to find out....
April 22, 2026
Explore more conversations like this From the Block. For the crypto sector, big enough operational crises can be viewed as industry-wide reputational crises. And by any measure, the April 18 exploit...
May 29, 2025
Paying with crypto is a logistics problem, and that logistics problem creates a user experience bottleneck. Stablecoins want to solve that, but can they? “People hold their assets in crypto,...
July 01, 2026
Robinhood Markets has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain that the company said is purpose-built for real-world assets. Robinhood Chain is built using the Arbitrum Platform to institutional standards, is natively connected to Robinhood’s onchain users, and has deep integrations with Alchemy, BitGo and Chainlink, the company said in a Wednesday (July 1) press release. […]
June 30, 2026
Several of the world’s payments and tech giants have agreed to use the money movement stablecoin Open USD. That coin is set to go live later this year, according to...
June 22, 2026
Anchorage Digital launched Monday (June 22) a new tokenized deposit infrastructure aimed at enabling banks to offer around-the-clock settlement without overhauling their existing core systems, according to a Monday press...
June 16, 2026
Nigeria has become sub-Saharan Africa’s leader in cross-border stablecoin payments. That’s according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report published Tuesday (June 16), showing that the country accounts for 60%...
