Stablecoins just processed more annual volume than Visa and Mastercard combined, and most businesses still think crypto is for speculation. Stablecoin trading volume hit $33 trillion in 2025, with Bloomberg forecasting $56.6 trillion by 2030
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Circle lost $5 billion in a day because Congress decided stablecoin holders don't deserve interest. Circle's stock dropped 20% on Tuesday, wiping out $5 billion in market cap after a new CLARITY Act draft proposed banning passive yield on stablecoin balances
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A stablecoin startup just raised $6 million to build something the rest of crypto seems allergic to: financial privacy that doesn't require a PhD in cryptography. Payy raised $6 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital, with Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto joining the round
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OpenAI just handed developers a pre-built safety layer for teen users, and it's less about protecting kids than protecting their own liability. OpenAI released prompt-based teen safety policies through gpt-oss-safeguard, giving developers age-specific moderation guardrails
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Cathie Wood just bought $16 million of Circle while everyone else was selling, and that tells you more about stablecoin infrastructure than the headlines do. Circle's stock dropped 20% Tuesday on a cluster of negative news hitting its stablecoin business all at once.
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DeepSeek is hiring for agentic AI, and China just showed its hand on where Web4 development is really happening. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that rattled Silicon Valley, is hiring specialists in agentic AI, signaling a strategic pivot toward autonomous task-executing systems
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Fast Company's 2026 finance innovators list is actually a snapshot of Web4 infrastructure being built in plain sight. Fast Company's 2026 finance innovation honorees reveal AI agents (Ramp's expense approval automation) and tokenization plays (Robinhood's stock tokenization) as the dominant themes
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Michael Saylor just unlocked another $44 billion for Bitcoin purchases, and the playbook that turned MicroStrategy into a crypto treasury is now being copied by companies that actually make money.
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A $4 trillion fund services giant just decided Bitcoin mining cash flows belong on a blockchain. Apex Group, managing $4 trillion in assets, is tokenizing the Omnes Mining Note (OMN) on Coinbase's Base platform, marking traditional finance's deepest move into crypto infrastructure tokenization yet.
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The U.S. just kneecapped stablecoin yields before they could scale, and now we get to watch the real fight over what "money" means in the digital age. The Crypto Clarity Act's latest text prohibits rewards on stablecoin balances, marking a restrictive approach to digital dollar regulation
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Sam Altman is stepping off Helion's board right as OpenAI starts negotiating to buy power from them, and that timing tells you everything about what OpenAI thinks it needs next.
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European banks just declared war on stablecoins, and they're using your deposit account as the weapon. UK Finance published a report arguing tokenized deposits should be the primary onchain cash mechanism, positioning them as superior to stablecoins for institutional settlement
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The last major roadblock in U.S. crypto legislation just crumbled, and stablecoin issuers are about to face a reckoning over who gets paid. Key lawmakers reached an "agreement in principle" on stablecoin yield treatment, removing the final obstacle to comprehensive crypto legislation
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Ledger hiring a CFO from Circle and opening a New York office isn't about an IPO, it's about survival in a market where hardware wallets are becoming infrastructure. Ledger hired John Andrews, former Circle CFO, as it preps for a potential IPO and opens a New York office
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The crypto market structure bill has died in committee more times than anyone cares to count, but Senator Lummis says this time is different, and the sticking point is surprisingly narrow.
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Anthropic just flipped the script on OpenAI where it actually matters: new enterprise money.
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Five mid-tier U.S. banks just decided they'd rather compete with Tether than lose deposits to it. The Signal Huntington, First Horizon, M&T, KeyCorp, and Old National are building the Cari Network on ZKsync, a Layer 2 Ethereum protocol. The play is tokenized bank deposits that move like stablecoins but carry FDIC insurance and regulatory clarity that USDT and USDC can't match.
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Mastercard just dropped $1.5 billion guaranteed, plus $300 million in earnouts, on a stablecoin payment rail most people have never heard of. The Signal BVNK isn't a household name, but that's the point. They're infrastructure. The startup processes cross-border B2B payments using stablecoins as the settlement layer, letting companies move money internationally without touching correspondent banking networks. Think invoices paid in
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PayPal just put a dollar-backed token in the hands of 430 million users across 70 countries, and most of them probably don't know what a stablecoin is. The Signal PayPal expanded PYUSD access from two markets (US and UK) to 70 in a single move. That's 68 new countries where eligible users can now hold, transfer, and earn rewards on a blockchain-based dollar.
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Theo just raised $100 million to build a stablecoin backed by gold futures, not gold itself, and that difference is everything. The Signal Most asset-backed stablecoins are straightforward. Circle holds dollars in reserve. Paxos holds actual gold bars. Theo is doing something different: backing a stablecoin with gold futures contracts and extracting yield from two mechanisms simultaneously. First, the roll yield when futures contracts expire and need to
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