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Coinbax wins $20,000 PitchFest prize at Consensus Miami for stablecoin compliance

MIAMI – Coinbax won the $20,000 grand prize at Consensus Miami’s PitchFest after pitching a system designed to help banks and financial firms manage...

Kraken’s Parent Company Acquires Stablecoin Payments Firm Reap for $600M

The deal is payable in cash and stock and values Payward at $20 billion. Payward Inc., the parent company of U.S. crypto exchange Kraken,...

OpenTrade Raises $17 Million to Expand Stablecoin Yield Platform

OpenTrade, an institutional-grade platform for onchain and real-world asset (RWA)-backed lending and stablecoin yield products, has raised fresh capital to expand its yield infrastructure.The...

Stablecoin Industry Opposes Bank of England’s Unhosted Wallet Ban

As the UK considers options to attract and develop the crypto industry at home, the Bank of England (BOE) has put forward several proposals...

Bermuda pushes stablecoin payments with USDC airdrop as it courts crypto firms, regulators

Bermuda is aiming to show an example how to move crypto into everyday commerce without breaking the financial system, Premier David Burt said onstage...

Western Union Enters Stablecoin Race With USDPT Launch On Solana

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A combined 130 million people in Bolivia and the Philippines now have...

Lighter Names USDC as Preferred Stablecoin in New Circle Partnership

The agreement spans spot and perpetual trading, settlement, liquidations, and onboarding flows on the decentralized exchange.Circle and Lighter have entered a strategic partnership that...

Crypto’s barbell; speculation and stablecoin payments won users, Tempo’s Romero says

Miami Beach, FL — After years of experimentation, crypto today is boiling down to two core uses: trading and payments.Speaking at a fireside chat...

Ripple CEO Says Market Structure Bill Not a ‘Done Deal,’ Despite Stablecoin Compromise

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple Labs, warned Tuesday that recent progress on the digital asset market structure bill in the US Senate did not...

Stellar Gets Its First Regulated, Yield-Bearing Stablecoin with YLDS Launch

YLDS is an SEC-registered, USD-pegged stable asset from Figure. Figure Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: FIGR) — a fintech company that builds blockchain-native financial products including...

Paystand Launches USDb: A Bitcoin-Aligned Stablecoin for the $100trillion B2B Economy

Paystand has officially unveiled USDb, a new stablecoin purpose-built for enterprise financial operations, during the Bitcoin Las Vegas event. Unlike existing stablecoins—which currently dominate 90...