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Digital tokens pegged to a stable asset, typically a fiat currency like the US dollar, used for payments, trading, and settlement in crypto markets.
ECB board member Isabel Schnabel set out three ways to put central-bank money on-chain, two of which leave the reserves off the ledger. Her slides stop short of picking a model, so builders of tokenized-securities venues have to plan for three different cash legs.
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Binance will block withdrawals and may hold or return deposits from Nov. 1 when Brazilian users skip a central-bank questionnaire on cross-border crypto. Resolution 521/2025 makes the exchange report those flows as foreign-exchange activity in a market Chainalysis put at $252.5 billion over twelve months.
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Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm with a national trust charter, has cut 17% of its staff, according to people familiar with internal discussions. It is shrinking while it holds new investor capital and competes with rivals that have since won similar charters.
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Fiserv went live with Bank of North Dakota's Roughrider Coin, a stablecoin more than 90 local banks and credit unions reach through software they already use. The test is whether they pick it over the conventional transfer in the same system.
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SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said the agency did not intend to extend its Dec. 31 Treasury clearing deadline or the June 30, 2027 date for repos. Stablecoin issuers that sell or repo Treasuries to fund redemptions will pay for the change through their dealers.
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Standard Chartered has placed a dedicated DeFi research desk beside its ETF and stablecoin access, citing DeFi value locked that reached $114bn in 2025. The move makes on-chain research part of the access layer the bank sells, grouped with the custody and trading it already offers.
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Tether-backed Utexo plans to issue USDT on Bitcoin and police the nearly $190 billion stablecoin there with a coin blacklist in place of address freezes. Utexo cannot freeze those coins, so a block holds only where exchanges and bridges check the list.
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Anchorage Digital is cutting about 17% of staff, an estimated 68 jobs, eight months after Tether's $100 million investment valued it at $4.2 billion. That price covered a roughly 2.4% stake, and Anchorage's own 2023 record points to a cost cut it has reversed before.
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Visa says stablecoin-linked card volume grew nearly 200% in a year across more than 160 programs. Its one dollar figure, a $20 billion settlement run rate, counts money moving between Visa and participating institutions, so the size of card spending is still unknown.
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XRP Ledger x402 payments ran at about 525,000 a day over the latest week, taking the total from 1 million in July to 11,965,947 by Oct. 3. The count shows software paying for services at volume, but it is a tally of payments published without a dollar value.
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Open USD launched with Stripe distribution and $468 million of backed supply, about 0.15% of a dollar-stablecoin market led by USDT and USDC. Its share grows only if Stripe customers move payments and treasury balances into it beyond the liquidity its founders seeded.
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Executives from five digital-asset firms said the Bank of Korea's bank-led won stablecoin model gives banks little reason to build new payment networks. A won token has to settle payments more cheaply than existing networks to be useful, and the central bank's model gives issuance to the institutions that run those networks.
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ARK Invest bought about $24.7 million of CoreWeave shares days before Cathie Wood urged investors to track where AI agents spend money. For now ARK's money is on the compute agents consume, and the fight over which payment network they use is still being argued in papers and protocols.
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MoonPay is pursuing stablecoin, remittance and payments work with KB Financial, Woori Bank and KakaoBank after opening a Korean entity in September. Its one-vendor pitch faces three other global entrants and four Korean firms, most of them selling banks a single layer of the stack.
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HSBC's licensed Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, RedCoin, is due by year-end inside PayMe, an app with more than 3.3 million users. No coin has been issued yet, so that figure is the reach of Hong Kong's biggest lender, and demand for the token is still untested.
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Buyers spent about $6 million sweeping 63 CryptoPunks around Sept. 23, roughly 73% of the collection's $8.2 million week. The newer lending and brokerage tools turn up in wrapped, USDC-paid grail sales that the weekly count leaves out.
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Armadin's $255.5 million Series B and Jeeves's $110 million raise took 68% of fintech's $541 million week, by FinTech Global's count. The prior week's top two took a similar share of $1.2 billion, so the fall hit large and small rounds alike.
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OFAC designated A7, a Russia-linked payments network that reportedly settled over $86 billion in its first year, a transnational criminal organization. FinCEN's same-day proposal to bar transfers through A7's sub-agents gives banks and crypto firms a new screening job aimed at intermediaries.
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Whales sent about $30 billion of stablecoins into crypto markets in September, yet Binance's reserves ended $1.8 billion below their September 8 peak. Much of it looks like trading collateral bound for derivatives venues while retail use shrinks.
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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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