The credit card companies just picked their horse in the stablecoin race, and it's not USDC. Open USD (OUSD) launched September 30 live on Ethereum, Solana, Base, and Tempo, backed by BlackRock and Google, with immediate integration by Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase.
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The OG status symbol of NFTs is printing millionaire exits again, three years after everyone declared the party over. CryptoPunks sales are surging, with the collection's rarest "grail" pieces moving for millions of dollars after an extended bear market
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Google's global affairs chief just told regulators what they want to hear — that Big Tech can't be trusted to police itself. James Manyika, Google SVP for Global Affairs, told Bloomberg that AI safety requires a "collective effort" beyond any single company
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The company that can't keep its AI agents from breaking out of secure environments just fired three people for not following information-handling rules.
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The president who threatened to boot AI companies from federal contracts just had dinner with the CEO he called a "security risk" — and now he "likes" him.
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The world's most powerful financial data terminal just made stablecoins a first-class asset for institutional investors. Bloomberg Terminal now integrates Allium's blockchain data to track stablecoin supply, issuance, transfers, and activity across chains with hourly updates
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Australia is about to learn what happens when AI infrastructure meets a country that actually reads the fine print. Legal expert Jeannie Paterson warns that data security concerns around AI could spark a major governance debate in Australia, potentially triggered by Anthropic's anticipated IPO
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The SEC just went from crypto's principal's office to its lobby group, and Wall Street analysts are already hedging their bets. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce expects the CLARITY Act to pass this summer, while Chairman Paul Atkins outlined "Project Crypto" to make the U.S. the global crypto capital
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When the culture starts making fun of you, you've either lost or won—and for AI safety discourse, it's unclear which. SNL's Weekend Update featured a sketch with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discussing AI's threat to humanity, complete with the line "AI is the devil and I its maker"
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The UK just made it cheaper to compete with Tether and Circle than anywhere in the West. The FCA finalized new crypto rules that slash stablecoin reserve requirements from 2% to 1% and cut issuer costs in half
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The AI safety shop everyone called "too careful" just became nearly a trillion-dollar bet that principles might actually print money. Anthropic hits $965B valuation while delaying IPO to November, creating tension between massive private market confidence and public debut timing
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The line between owning stock and owning crypto just disappeared, and it happened on the largest decentralized exchange in the world.
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A 125x token surge in six weeks tells you institutions finally found a Bitcoin wrapper they trust. Circle's cirBTC jumped from 40 tokens in mid-August to over 5,000, driven by institutional DeFi demand
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The executive who just steered a $1.2 billion public offering is walking away before the ink dries on stablecoin regulation. Circle CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen is stepping down by year-end, months after completing the company's $1.2B IPO
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Stablecoin issuers just proved they can freeze your tokens anytime, but also that they're too slow to stop a motivated thief. Circle and Tether blacklisted wallet "Bitget Exploiter 8", freezing roughly $318,000 in USDC and USDT after a massive Bitget exchange hack
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Stablecoins just got banking rules, which means they're no longer crypto's wild west experiment but the U.S. government's chosen infrastructure for digital dollars.
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The company that spent two years positioning itself as the responsible AI alternative just became Washington's favorite punching bag.
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Washington just figured out that exporting dollars doesn't require printing presses anymore. The US is considering a coordinated push to promote dollar-backed stablecoins internationally, potentially involving private companies and multiple government agencies
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Bitcoin just became collateral you can actually use without triggering a taxable event or timing the exit. Coinbase retail users can now borrow USDC against bitcoin at fixed rates, while Circle opened the same product to institutional clients through Circle Mint
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When community bankers celebrate a regulation's failure, you're watching power shift in real time. The Clarity Act died in the Senate, leaving stablecoin yields unregulated — and community banks just won
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