The banks that spent a decade warning about crypto's dangers just killed the bill that would have regulated it, and now the White House is putting stablecoin market structure in the hands of agencies instead of Congress.
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The crypto on-ramp just bought itself a regulated front door to Wall Street's plumbing. MoonPay is acquiring North Capital, an SEC-registered broker-dealer, in an all-stock deal worth over $60 million
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The world's largest asset manager just validated the case for building payments infrastructure that treats humans as optional participants.
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The world's largest asset manager just told institutional investors to stop sleeping on the most obvious demand driver for crypto infrastructure since DeFi.
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The ECB just told the European Commission that banning stablecoin yields isn't enough—they want the ban to follow your coins wherever they go, even into DeFi protocols the law doesn't touch yet.
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Ten days ago they wanted to slow down. Today they're racing to the bottom on price. Anthropic and OpenAI both launched cheaper AI models within hours of each other, slashing costs while claiming better performance.
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While U.S. banks debate whether crypto is real, Canada's entire banking cartel just decided to tokenize their deposits. All six major Canadian banks are launching a unified tokenized deposit system for interbank transfers and digital asset integration
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The first mainstream fintech just plugged stablecoins into a card network handling more volume than most crypto exchanges process in a year. SoFi launched live settlement using its SoFiUSD stablecoin on Mastercard's network, targeting $25 billion in annualized card program volume
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The European Central Bank just became a buyer in the tokenized bond market, not a regulator watching from the sidelines. The ECB officially launched Pontes, a new system that settles tokenized transactions in central bank money, sometimes called wholesale CBDC
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The companies that spent a decade keeping crypto at arm's length are now posting job listings for the people who know how to build it.
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Europe just built the on-ramp for institutional money to flow into tokenized assets without touching a blockchain. The ECB launched Pontes, a wholesale settlement platform that connects DLT market infrastructure directly to central bank payment rails
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The agent economy just got its own payment rail, and it settles in stablecoins while you're still waiting for your bank wire to clear. Aptos built infrastructure that lets AI agents rent GPU compute and settle payments in stablecoins, no humans required for the transaction
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The payments layer of the internet just processed a trillion dollars, and most people still think stablecoins are for traders.
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The banks couldn't kill stablecoins, so they're settling for killing your credit card points on dogwifhat. Visa is shutting down a loophole that let people earn credit card rewards on meme coin purchases by coding them as "digital media" transactions.
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Stablecoins are voting with their feet, and Ethereum is losing the election. Tether minted $500M USDT on Solana in under an hour, marking one of the fastest large-scale stablecoin issuances on the network and signaling Solana's rising dominance in crypto liquidity infrastructure.
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While everyone debates whether AI agents need money, Ripple just gave them wallets that work across blockchains and the technical infrastructure to pay for services automatically.
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Turns out the hardest part of faking $1.6 billion in bank instruments wasn't the forgery, it was finding someone willing to sign off for less than half a million in stablecoins.
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A $1.23 billion tokenized Treasury fund just got a 35-million-user distribution channel, and it's using stablecoins as the Trojan horse. WisdomTree's WTGXX tokenized money market fund is now accessible through MoonPay's platform, giving 35 million users direct access to tokenized Treasuries
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The world's most strategic shipping lane now has a Bitcoin toll booth, and Treasury just shut down the cashier. Treasury's OFAC sanctioned Tehran-based crypto exchange BitBank for moving hundreds of millions in bitcoin to Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)
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Japan's biggest financial services conglomerate just bet $25 million that stablecoins will replace card rails for cross-border commerce.
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