News Archive
Browse retained market reporting from the past 30 days.
Crypto Briefing
Fasset's growth highlights stablecoins' potential to disrupt traditional finance, enhancing global remittance efficiency and accessibility. Fasset achieves $1B valuation with SBI backing for stablecoin payments expansion.
Coindesk
The firm raised $68 million as its revenue has grown six-fold as stablecoin payments and settlement expand, CEO Mohammad Raafi Hossain told CoinDesk.
The Currency Analytics
Crypto card spending just crossed 160 billion.
PYMNTS
Cryptocurrency card spending has reportedly more than tripled in the last year amid increased retail purchasing. Spending on these cards came to $1.04 billion in July thanks to dollar-backed stablecoins and more people purchasing everyday items like groceries, CoinDesk reported Sunday (Aug. 23).
CrowdFundInsider
Thredd to underpin Cashi's Hong Kong stablecoin card debut Thredd contributes issuer processing infrastructure for Cashi, whose app lets users send and hold digital assets. The card can facilitate daily spending.
Crypto Briefing
The Trump family's entry into crypto banking could reshape regulatory landscapes, raising potential conflicts of interest and influencing stablecoin adoption. Trump family moves into banking as OCC grants charter for stablecoin trust company.
Crypto Briefing
The rise of dollar-based stablecoins could undermine local monetary policies, challenging central banks' control over their economies. Central bankers fear dollar-based stablecoins threaten monetary sovereignty.
Cointribune
Foreign investors sold $29 billion in short-term US Treasury bills in June. Yet they did not flee the United States: $181.4 billion moved towards US equities in the same month.
Coindesk
Tracked card volume more than tripled in a year, with USDC and USDT funding over 70% of spending as users increasingly paid for groceries, rides and subscriptions.
Coindesk
According to Coinbase's head of AI product, we're currently in the “Napster/LimeWire era” of agentic payments.
Bitcoin
Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether's USDT at $0.88, and Terra's UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin called xUSD lost more than half its value in a single day.
CryptoSlate
Foreign investors sent a net $133.5 billion into US financial markets in June. During the same month, they sold $29 billion of Treasury bills.
CryptoSlate
Exchanges and custodians would need ₦2 billion in capital, while foreign-currency stablecoins face 120% backing.
Bitcoin
The Bank Policy Institute, representing the massive U.S. banking lobby, filed a comment letter asking FinCEN to apply customer identification requirements to secondary stabilization markets, extending the provision applied to stablecoin issuers to exchanges with a direct relationship with retail customers.
Tokenpost
Artificial intelligence agents could become cryptos next major class of users as payment companies race to build infrastructure that allows software to autonomously purchase data, computing resources and online services. AI agents can perform multi-step tasks for users, but many of those activities require payments.
CrowdFundInsider
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has proposed new accounting guidance aimed at clarifying when certain digital assets, including stablecoins, can be treated as cash equivalents under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
CryptoSlate
By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin could still move freely across blockchains and yet disappear from the buy menu on an American exchange.
AMBCrypto
Minimal USDT transfers, frozen Kraken accounts, and HTX-linked wallets have given rise to a crypto mystery.
CryptoTicker
The US accounting board FASB has for the first time named three conditions under which a stablecoin may count as cash on a balance sheet. Those conditions turn into a checklist that lets you place your own holdings in about twenty minutes.
Crypto Briefing
Token Terminal's pivot to asset-level data could redefine blockchain analytics, emphasizing stablecoin dominance and expanding market insights. Token Terminal pivots to stablecoin and RWA data, tracking over 4,600 tokenized assets.