The FDIC just drew the regulatory perimeter around stablecoins while Congress is still arguing about the blueprint. The FDIC approved a proposed rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers and opened it for public comment
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A crypto hedge fund manager just shut down his firm after winning, not losing, and what he said about why tells you everything about where the real money is moving.
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Polygon is shipping faster finality and transparent gas pricing this week, betting that infrastructure upgrades matter more than token hype in 2026. Polygon's Giugliano hardfork activates April 8 at block 85,268,500, targeting faster transaction finality and improved fee transparency
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Bitcoin options traders are loading up on downside protection while whales quietly accumulate, a split that signals either the best buying opportunity in months or a cliff edge nobody wants to admit they see.
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Ant Group just gave AI agents their own payment rails, and the Chinese fintech giant is betting the future of commerce runs on code, not credit cards. Ant Group launched Anvita, a platform that lets AI agents execute crypto transactions autonomously without human intervention.
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Ant Group just built the payment rails for agents to pay each other without asking permission. Ant Group's blockchain division launched Anvita, a platform where AI agents coordinate tasks and settle payments in real time using stablecoins
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When a government tries to wall off its digital infrastructure, the walls collapse inward. Russia's VPN crackdown, aimed at blocking Telegram, caused a nationwide banking outage this week, according to Telegram founder Pavel Durov
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Big Tech just decided how AI agents will pay each other, and they're not asking permission. Coinbase, Stripe, OpenAI, Microsoft, and a16z launched the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation to standardize how autonomous AI agents interact and transact.
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Coinbase just handed the keys to its payment protocol to the Linux Foundation, and Google, Stripe, and Visa showed up to help drive. Coinbase's x402 payment protocol is now an open standard under the Linux Foundation, with 20+ founding members including Google, Stripe, and Visa backing it
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A nationally chartered bank with $50 billion in assets just made stablecoins a boring business banking feature. SoFi launched Big Business Banking, an enterprise platform combining fiat and stablecoin services on Solana with 24/7 payment rails
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SoFi just turned a regulated bank into a 24/7 stablecoin bridge, and that's the real news. SoFi launches a banking hub that lets businesses hold dollars and convert to stablecoins inside a federally regulated bank account
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Coinbase just turned a payments protocol into infrastructure, and the backers tell you everything about where agent-to-agent commerce is headed.
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The Treasury just opened comment on a rulebook that could fragment the $300 billion stablecoin market across 50 states, or finally give it the regulatory clarity it's been begging for.
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Charles Schwab and Citadel's crypto exchange just asked to become a bank, joining six other firms in a quiet regulatory land grab that rewrites who controls digital asset infrastructure.
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Hong Kong just missed its own deadline for approving the first regulated stablecoins, and the silence is louder than the excuse. Hong Kong's monetary authority failed to issue any stablecoin licenses by its March 2026 target, offering only vague assurances it's "advancing the process"
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Stablecoins just got their own Stripe for plastic cards. Kulipa raised $6.2 million seed funding to build card-issuing infrastructure specifically for stablecoin payments The platform lets fintechs and crypto wallets white-label payment cards without building card operations from scratch
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A16z just bet $10 million that stablecoins need middleware, and the partner list suggests they're right. A16z crypto led a $10 million round in The Better Money Company, building what they call stablecoins' "missing layer"
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A forex startup just raised $94 million to replace correspondent banking with stablecoins, and the implications for B2B payments are bigger than the round suggests. OpenFX raised $94 million to scale stablecoin-powered cross-border payments for businesses
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Standard Chartered just led a $1.1 billion valuation round for a crypto market maker most people have never heard of. SC Ventures and Ripple are backing Keyrock's open Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation, with the round expected to close soon
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Japan's biggest corporations just made a $147 million bet that Africa's startup ecosystem matters more than Silicon Valley thinks.
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