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Jefferies wouldn’t buy the dip as Open USD heats up stablecoin race

"Large groups of large companies coordinate poorly, have misaligned incentives, slow things down and rarely create the space for real durable innovation," he wrote.Test...

UK Sets Landmark Crypto Rules In Race To Become Global Hub

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority published a landmark crypto regulatory framework this week, establishing capital requirements, market abuse controls, and stablecoin standards...

Germany Leads MiCA Crypto Licensing Race Across Europe

Update 2:00 pm UTC, June 29: Added comment from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).The European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework is...

Ripple Launches RLUSD in Japan via SBI as Circle and Nomura Join Stablecoin Race

Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin went live in Japan on Tuesday after receiving approval from Japan's Financial Services Agency, becoming the first foreign-issued stablecoin classified under...

Schwab to join prediction markets race with S&P 500 event-based options: WSJ

Charles Schwab is working with Cboe Global Markets to launch a new type of options contract that would allow customers to make yes-or-no wagers...

Fidelity joins Wall Street’s race to manage stablecoin reserves

The GENIUS Act, signed into law last year, established the first federal framework for payment stablecoins in the United States. Among other requirements, issuers...

Coinbase joins tokenized stock race with onchain shares and dividend payments

Coinbase (COIN) said it plans to introduce tokenized stocks backed one-for-one by underlying U.S. equities, joining the growing competition among crypto firms and traditional...

Blockworks Acquires Messari In Deal Highlighting Crypto’s Data Consolidation Race

Blockworks, the New York-based crypto data and investor relations platform, has acquired rival Messari in a deal that underscores the growing consolidation...

Bybit and Kraken Add xStocks SpaceX Tokenized Equity as Pre-IPO Derivatives Race Reaches Four Venues

Bybit and Kraken both launched 1:1 equity-backed SpaceX exposure via xStocks, joining Coinbase International and BitMEX in a four-venue race that now splits between...

AI infrastructure race heats up as IREN pitches full-stack strategy, WhiteFiber lands $160M deal

IREN (IREN) co-founder Daniel Roberts outlined an ambitious vision for the company as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform in a lengthy X post...

The U.S. can’t lose the bitcoin race to China

The next global power competition is not being fought over missiles alone. It’s being fought over money, and right now, China is moving aggressively...

Crypto security is turning into an AI arms race as agents may overwhelm compliance teams

AI agents and automated payments could reach a scale that crypto monitoring systems built for human-paced markets cannot handle, Elliptic CEO Simone Maini warned.