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USDT is the largest stablecoin by market cap, issued by Tether and pegged 1:1 to the US dollar; widely used for crypto trading and payments.
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Bitcoin open interest rose $1.5 billion to $22.4 billion as the price climbed 3.4% past $86,000 before a US jobs report forecast at 90,000. Funding costs show the leverage plainly, but the claim that traders are leaving stablecoins rests on a market-share figure that any rally pushes down.
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Bitget customers pulled about $463 million in the first 24 hours after withdrawals reopened, more than the $388 million hackers stole on September 24. The protection fund covers the theft with about $76 million to spare, so the withdrawals now test whether the $5.7 billion left in reserves matches what Bitget owes customers.
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Binance Pay opened USDT spending at PayPay merchants across Japan to about 48 million eligible overseas users, with TBCASoft's HIVEX settling stores in yen. Shops see an ordinary PayPay sale, so volume depends on how many of those users actually travel to Japan.
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Sber says it will take USDT and Ether as loan collateral once the Bank of Russia permits public trading, which means the menu is set by the listing tests the central bank published on 11 August, not by the bank's appetite.
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Lee Hyoung-il told the National Assembly that virtual assets belong in the other-income category and that the National Tax Service will publish the operative rules by the end of this year, while capital gains taxation of securities waits for calmer markets.
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Binance bought $100 million of Circle stock and signed to promote USDC through September 2031. Customer USDC balances on the exchange are up fivefold at $7.13 billion; the USDT balance is up $10.9 billion.
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Binance paid $100 million for 1,237,011 Circle shares and signed a five-year USDC agreement whose incentive fee is a percentage of balances held in Circle's wallet product. The filing does not disclose the percentage.
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Ivan Chebeskov's 3.7 trillion ruble estimate covers coins and products linked to them, and the same ministry says at least 10 million wallets belonging to Russian citizens sit on foreign exchanges it wants back.
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Ethena's synthetic dollar traded about 8% below par on one spot pair while on-chain prices held. The trader who flagged it says the buyer on the other side made about $600,000 in three minutes.
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Two Dubai intermediaries took $330 million of Orlen prepayments for Venezuelan crude that never shipped. Polish prosecutors put the total loss near 1.6 billion zloty, and three former managers were indicted in August 2026.
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A dev.to post puts the precision check in the parser and refuses Python floats outright. The cost of adopting that lands at the HTTP boundary, where the decoder has to hand over the sender's digits as text.
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Treasury's study draws on reports from about 1,300 institutions filed between September 2023 and December 2025, and it says monthly volume grew almost 11 percent while each filer saw only one phase of a scam.
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UBS, PostFinance, SIX and TWINT are now testing CHFD, but the technical backbone belongs to a subsidiary of Swiss Stablecoin AG, and the programme closes at the end of 2026 with no commitment to launch.
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Queue deduplication can only match ids the producer already computed, and a chain re-presents the same transfer on every overlapping poll, so the fix is an identity on the payment plus state that proves it.
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Sber has put a price on moving Russian trade payments out of the fiat system, and the price is the only quantity it published; the app that would make it self-service is not due until the end of 2026.
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Korea's four biggest venues lost $364m in the first half, and the rebound since is landing unevenly, with Upbit's $1.04bn day beating Bithumb, Coinone and Digital X combined while it has waived fees only on stablecoins.
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EURR is issued by a Stripe-owned Luxembourg entity, not by Revolut. The regulated fintechs are distributing on-chain money; the balance-sheet obligation sits elsewhere.
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A recruiter's Hong Kong prison term stands, and the proceeds it fed ran on stablecoins. The gap between traced fraud flows and estimated global losses shows where screening is not looking.
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MOEX says its first two perpetual futures, on bitcoin and ethereum indices, arrive in September, days after the digital currency law takes effect and with the approved asset list down to three.
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A USDT-settled contract on a Shanghai memory maker follows SK Hynix and Samsung onto Binance Futures. The stated motive is lost crypto volume.
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Invest · August 16, 2026 · 2 publishers