Stablecoin yields have always been a bet on perpetual futures markets staying flush, until they're not. Ethena secured a $1 billion credit facility from FalconX to back USDe, its synthetic dollar stablecoin, diversifying beyond volatile crypto funding rates
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The CEO of a company that democratized stock trading by eliminating commissions now says the rails underneath are still analog garbage.
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Wall Street's tokenized money market fund just got a DeFi credit layer offering zero-percent loans, and the irony is perfect: institutions building the on-ramps, DeFi building the leverage.
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The White House is setting a table for crypto executives while Trump's own media company just walked away from Bitcoin after losing $360 million.
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The world's most-used stablecoin is about to learn what Europe already taught it: regulatory compliance isn't optional when you want access to rich-country users.
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The White House is bullish, the SEC is confessing, and the Senate just set a vote date—but none of that means crypto regulation is about to get simple.
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The credit card giants are now fighting over the same stablecoin infrastructure the way they once fought over merchant terminals. Visa issued an RFP for new stablecoin settlement partners weeks after Mastercard acquired BVNK, the crypto payments firm Visa had been using
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Tokenized equities just crossed the DeFi credibility threshold—not with hype, but with locked capital.
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The infrastructure for tokenized finance just got its plumbing. Securitize launched HINC, a tokenized fund from Neuberger Berman's $230 billion fixed-income platform, live across Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, and Sui
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The fintech giant with 57 million users just handed MoonPay the keys to its customer base without building the rails itself. Cash App users can now purchase ETH, SOL, USDT and other digital assets through MoonPay integration, expanding beyond its native BTC and USDC support
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Real-world assets are finding their way onchain faster than most people realize, and the institutions writing the checks don't care about your favorite L1. Centrifuge hit nearly $4B in tokenized assets, a 300% jump that marks real institutional appetite for onchain RWAs
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Wall Street's betting the Fed's done hiking while crypto's betting it never mattered in the first place. The S&P 500 fell 0.52% Monday while Bitcoin surged past $64,000, a rare divergence that signals traders pricing in completely different Fed outcomes across asset classes.
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When private equity starts talking stablecoins at beach houses, the technology has crossed the chasm from crypto Twitter to real money. Kahina Van Dyke, Advent International Operating Partner, discussed stablecoins and fintech consolidation during Bloomberg's New Voices Initiative
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The company that built the payment rails for SaaS is now buying the company that routes AI requests—because machines don't pay with credit cards. Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter for somewhere between $7B and $10B, depending on which report you trust—either way, it's Stripe's largest acquisition ever
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The machine economy just processed 14 million transactions, and Circle's betting the next trillion-dollar question isn't if AI agents can buy and sell — it's whether we'll trust them to.
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While Congress fights over what crypto is, Treasury just asked the industry to help write the rulebook. The U.S. Treasury is seeking public comment on proposed rules for the GENIUS Act, landmark crypto legislation aimed at clarifying who needs licenses in the digital asset space
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The U.S. just drew the map for licensed digital dollars, and the January deadline means the market's about to sort winners from pretenders fast.
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When Goldman tells the Street they're wrong about rate hikes, crypto and emerging markets move before anyone else notices. Goldman Sachs says market expectations for Fed rate hikes are too aggressive, warning of mispricing in fixed income and rate-sensitive equities
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The biggest crypto regulation bill in years is about to die in committee because Congress can't decide if stablecoins should pay interest.
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The Fed's next move might not matter if the bond market is already pricing in a world where Uncle Sam can't afford his own debt.
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