The Fed is tightening into a stagflation setup, and crypto is bleeding first. August producer prices jumped 0.4% while Brent crude crossed $106, pushing Fed rate hike odds to 64% for September. The 30-year Treasury yield hit levels not seen in five years.
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The company that prints $183 billion in dollar-pegged tokens just decided to start lending it out the old-fashioned way.
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The remittance business just found a way to skip the banking system entirely. MoneyGram launched a stablecoin-backed Visa card developed with Rain, starting in Colombia The card lets customers hold dollars and spend from a stablecoin balance, turning digital assets into everyday payment rails
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The stablecoin rails are faster and cheaper than banks, but useless at the bodega—Latitude just raised $35M to fix that. Latitude, founded by Stripe and Uber veterans, raised $35M to bridge stablecoins and local payment infrastructure
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When regulators shut the door, cybercrime networks don't fold, they just shop for stablecoins that won't freeze their billions.
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The dollar doesn't just dominate crypto—it's 100 times more dominant onchain than it is in the real world.
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While crypto exchanges print money and stablecoins hit record volumes, the companies that literally secure the Bitcoin network are getting left behind—because they're too busy renting their power to AI.
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The company that prints dollar-pegged tokens is now lending those dollars to borrowers in 60 countries, and Wall Street is invited to watch.
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Circle just paid $400 million to solve the problem every stablecoin issuer pretends doesn't exist: the last hundred feet between crypto rails and a shopkeeper's bank account in Manila.
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The fifth-largest U.S. commercial bank just proved it can move money across borders on a blockchain, and traditional banking hours are about to become obsolete. U.S. Bank completed a live cross-border payment test using its USBDC stablecoin on the Stellar blockchain
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The crypto industry just bought a national TV campaign for a bill that Republican senators say is already dead — which tells you everything about who actually believes what in Washington right now.
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Jack Dorsey just asked the government for permission to become a bank—the Bitcoin kind. Block is seeking OCC approval to establish a national trust bank through its Builders Bank subsidiary for Bitcoin and stablecoin custody services
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BitGo just lost a customer that might become its biggest competitor, and the CEO is on TV explaining why that's fine, actually. World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's crypto venture, got preliminary approval for a national trust bank charter, meaning it can ditch BitGo as its custodian
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DeFi just hung an "accredited investors only" sign on its front door. Compound launched a whitelisted institutional lending market offering USDC loans against ETH, wstETH, WBTC, and cbBTC at up to 87% LTV ratios
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The stablecoin with the best rails wins, and Circle just bought 100 countries worth of them. Circle is acquiring Singapore-based Tazapay for $400 million, a cross-border payments firm processing $25 billion in annualized volume across 100-plus markets
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The card network that moves $14 trillion a year just decided your stablecoin balance can borrow against itself, on-chain, to settle in real time.
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Visa just turned stablecoin settlement data into collateral, and the real story isn't the 15x growth — it's who gets to borrow against it. Visa's stablecoin settlement volume hit a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15x year over year with payment volume up nearly 200%
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One company now controls nearly 5% of all Ethereum that will ever exist, and they're earning yield on most of it while everyone else debates if crypto is dead. Bitmine purchased 28,086 ETH, bringing its total holdings to 5.93 million tokens worth $14.8 billion
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South Korea's own budget office just quantified the billions its banks stand to lose if merchants go stablecoin. South Korea's National Assembly Budget Office projects stablecoins could save merchants up to $3.8 billion annually by cutting payment processing costs
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The carry trade is unwinding, and bitcoin is getting caught in the same liquidation wave as tech stocks and gold. Bitcoin fell below $79,000 as traders price in a 60% chance of a Fed rate hike next week, while the yen rallied alongside climbing oil prices and government bond yields.
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