The CLARITY Act, Washington’s biggest attempt yet to write clear rules for crypto markets, missed its shot at finalizing in a vote before the Senate’s August recess. Nevertheless, the initiative is still very much alive. U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has opened the first procedural steps needed to bring the bill to a vote […]
Singapore’s wealthiest and most experienced investors are not waiting for regulators to catch up. New research from digital asset bank Sygnum shows that three in four of the city-state’s high-net-worth and professional investors already own tokenized assets, at the same time as the country’s financial regulator is asking the public whether ordinary retail investors should […]
Crypto had a rough week on two fronts, regulation and cybersecurity, at once and it says a lot about where the industry actually stands.
The U.S. Senate has one real shot left to vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before lawmakers leave Washington for the August recess. For payment processors and fintechs building on stablecoin rails, this bill matters far more than crypto trading stats.
Stablecoin fintech company Dakota has filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Dakota National Trust Bank, a de novo national trust bank. If approved, the new entity would let Dakota offer digital asset custody, U.S. dollar stablecoin issuance, and related transactional services as a federally regulated bank, […]
Western Union has launched the Stablecard app, a digital wallet and Visa card that lets people hold and spend U.S. dollar value backed by a stablecoin. The company built the product with Rain, a stablecoin infrastructure provider. Stablecard is live in 37 markets, and Western Union plans to expand to more than 60 markets by […]
Tokenized stock trading reached a record high in July, but new data suggests the headline growth may not reflect the broader market.
Panama-based stablecoin infrastructure company BALBOA | CORP has strengthened its advisory board by appointing former Paxos treasury executive Austin Campbell and fintech entrepreneur Richard Douglas, as it develops payment technology designed for international shipping and trade.
Solana, a blockchain network known for fast and low-cost transactions, is rolling out a technical overhaul called Alpenglow. The upgrade is designed to confirm transactions in about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds today.
The discovery of a firmware-related vulnerability affecting Coldcard hardware wallet is heating up discussions around Bitcoin self-custody, extending concerns well beyond individual investors to payment service providers (PSPs), fintechs, and businesses holding digital assets on their balance sheets.
USDC merchant adoption in the United States is shifting from isolated pilot programs to infrastructure-level integration. Adoption remains early-stage compared with card payments, but the mechanics of accepting the stablecoin have changed substantially over the past year. Merchants no longer need to build separate crypto integrations. USDC is increasingly available as a native checkout option […]
Tokenized money is a blanket term, not a single instrument. It covers at least four distinct categories of digital claims. Each of them has a different issuer, a different legal status, and a different settlement risk profile. Under this blanket sit stablecoins, tokenized deposits, tokenized money market fund (MMF) shares, and wholesale or central bank […]
BNY Mellon has launched a blockchain-based transfer agency platform that will record fund transactions and investor ownership onchain. The initiative covers a business that services approximately $8.6 trillion in assets across 7.6 million investor accounts, significantly expanding blockchain’s role beyond pilot projects.
USDC, the dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Circle, is built directly into Shopify Payments, Shopify’s built-in payment gateway, as a checkout option. Being a stablecoin, USDC value stays linked to the US dollar at all times, making it more reliable and predictable than most other cryptocurrencies. Here’s how the Shopify crypto payment feature works for merchants […]
Stablecoins used to live inside crypto trading apps. Traders held them to move between Bitcoin and Ethereum without touching a bank. That role is changing. Stablecoins now sit inside the payment stack itself. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and PayPal all run stablecoin settlement in some form. Banks are testing tokenized deposits alongside them. This guide explains […]
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has quickly outrun all the disadvantages it might have had as a crypto latecomer, with it new cryptocurrency staked ETPs.
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