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Crypto card spending tops $1 billion as stablecoins move into everyday purchases

Tracked card volume more than tripled in a year, with USDC and USDT funding over 70% of spending as users increasingly paid for groceries,...

Bitcoin and Ether bears get decimated amid 'squeeze-led' rally and Musk's X wants to pay creators in stablecoins: Crypto's week in 5 stories

Bitcoin and crypto staged their strongest rally in months as Treasury intervention, regulatory moves and a historic short squeeze collided, while banks and technology...

Bank of England Tests Stablecoins and Digital Pound in the Same Cross-Border Trade Flow

The Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab is testing whether stablecoins and a digital pound can work together in cross-border trade.The experiment combines instant...

Circle is mispriced as stablecoins head toward trillions

The big picture: In an interview on CoinDesk’s Public Keys, Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen said investors are underestimating Circle’s opportunity as stablecoins...

Trump targets Brazil’s payments system while dollar stablecoins are quietly overtaking country’s payments

Dollar-linked stablecoins already account for roughly 90% of crypto transaction volume in Brazil, most of it used for payments and settlement, according to tax...

The payment war shifts to distribution as stablecoins reach mainstream status

"Both Stripe and PayPal do approximately the same amount of payment volume, but Stripe has about one-fifth the net revenue," Hadick said. "From a...

US, UK Treasuries to Align Transatlantic Rules on Tokenization and Stablecoins

The US Department of the Treasury and HM Treasury released a set of recommendations as part of the Transatlantic Taskforce for the Markets of...

Credit card giant JCB teams up with Circle to bring stablecoins to regular stores

They highlighted that stablecoins bring a wide range of benefits, including “reducing the burden of currency exchange for inbound tourists, further improving the efficiency...

Binance bets on becoming a crypto ‘super app’ as stablecoins reshape growth

Binance believes its next phase of growth will come from payments and financial services rather than cryptocurrency trading alone, as stablecoins reshape how people...

Stablecoins see biggest drop since 2022 crypto winter led by Tether (USDT), Circle’s USDC decline

The combined market capitalization of major stablecoins fell from roughly $166 billion in March 2022 to $122 billion by September 2023, RWA.xyz data shows...

Hyundai adopts stablecoins for cross-border treasury transfers

Hyundai, the world’s third-largest carmaker by vehicle sales, moved a stablecoin-based, cross-border, internal remittance system into production readiness on the Avalanche blockchain, becoming the...

BOK Doubles Down on Bank-Led Stablecoins as Deposit Token Pilots Advance

The Bank of Korea (BOK) has doubled down on its stance that won-denominated stablecoins should first be issued through bank-led consortiums.According to local reports...