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.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from a shopping assistant into an economic participant. Coinbase has taken a significant step in that transition by enabling Coinbase Business users to accept payments directly from AI agents through the x402 protocol, one of the clearest commercial deployments yet of agentic payment infrastructure.
HashKey Holdings Limited, an Asian digital asset group, has launched a new flagship crypto trading application that unifies its previously separate HashKey Exchange and HashKey Global platforms into a single user portal.
The initial significant deadline of the GENIUS Act in the USA has been crossed without the authorities issuing the full rulebook that the stablecoin industry anticipated. In spite of the fact that the law is taking effect much later than the July 18 deadline, the federal authorities have not released the bundle of regulations that […]
Eight times a year, a room of Fed officials decides one number that quietly shapes what the world pays to borrow money — the federal funds rate. It’s the setting that eventually shows up in your mortgage quote, your credit card APR, and the price of just about every asset investors trade. The decision belongs […]
Bitcoin investors are weighing two opposing signals this week. On one side, nearly $1 billion in net U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows landed over roughly six trading sessions, and the CLARITY Act (the U.S. bill meant to define a regulatory structure for digital asset markets) has regained momentum in the Senate. On the other side, […]
The European Central Bank (ECB) has renewed its warning that widespread stablecoin adoption could weaken Europe’s banking system by diverting deposits away from commercial banks, strengthening the central bank’s case for introducing a digital euro as a secure, publicly backed alternative for digital payments.
Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrategy) latest Bitcoin sale and President Donald Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve plan have become two of the most closely watched developments in the cryptocurrency market. While Strategy’s first net-selling activity briefly pressured Bitcoin prices, investors are also assessing how the U.S. government’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve could influence future Bitcoin supply, regulation and market […]
Visa has unveiled a new institutional stablecoin platform, marking another step in the payment giant’s expansion beyond traditional card processing towards blockchain-based financial infrastructure. The new tool is not a consumer payment product. The initiative is designed to support institutional participants managing stablecoin operations at scale instead.
PayPal USD (PYUSD) is now issued natively on Polygon through Paxos and made available via the Polygon Open Money Stack, the network’s payments infrastructure for moving money globally.
Cedar Money and Noah have announced a strategic partnership aimed at improving cross-border payment infrastructure for businesses trading between Africa and international markets. The collaboration combines Cedar’s regulated compliance framework with Noah’s stablecoin-powered payment technology to help importers and exporters settle international invoices more efficiently while meeting global regulatory requirements.
Melanion Digital has integrated Fipto’s payment infrastructure to support subscriptions in stablecoins for its Luxembourg-domiciled Sigma Market Neutral Fund.
Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) issued a warning on July 6, 2026, against six companies offering crypto-asset services in Belgium without the authorization required under EU law. The regulator advised the public not to accept offers from these firms and added them to its list of fraudulent crypto-asset service providers (CASPs).
European crypto investors need to figure out how to rearrange their fintech portfolios as fintech giant Revolut begins removing support for Tether’s USDT. The decision came about as new regulations established by the European Union (EU) on cryptocurrency were introduced fully on July 1, 2026.
After a turbulent June that saw U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) record their worst month on record, some market participants believe investor sentiment could begin to recover in July as macroeconomic conditions become more supportive and on-chain indicators strengthen.
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