Lloyds Sends Visa $750K in USDC While Banks Are Closed
Lloyds Banking Group used USDC to settle $750,000 in live payment obligations with Visa during a seven-day trial, with funds reaching Visa in under an hour, even over the weekend.…
Blackrock and Visa Now Validate Circle’s Arc; So Do Two XRP Ledger Partners
Circle has opened Arc’s public mainnet with 11 founding validators drawn almost entirely from traditional finance. At least two of them are also among Ripple’s closest commercial partners. The Validator…
Bitcoin’s Price Just Drew an $85M Bet From Last Year’s ETH Top-Caller
An address that sold 50,600 ETH near the top in late 2025 has spent four days converting $85.42 million in stablecoins into 1,075.6 BTC, and it still holds $74.32 million…
Stablecoin Depegs Explained: What Really Happens When a Digital Dollar Breaks the Buck
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.…
Tether’s USDT Supply Shrinks by $4B in 60 Days as Crypto Demand Cools
Tether’s USDT supply has declined by about $4 billion on a 60-day rolling basis, according to Cryptoquant data. Analysts say the drop may reflect investors moving back into fiat, weaker…
Circle Wins OCC Approval for National Trust Bank to Strengthen USDC Infrastructure
Circle has received approval from the OCC to establish Circle National Trust, a federally regulated national trust bank. The charter strengthens the infrastructure behind USDC and could eventually bring management…
Total Stablecoin Cap Falls $1.9 Billion This Week While Sky Dollar Leads the Slide
Tether lost $791 million this week, a single-token drop that accounted for 41% of the $1.9 billion pulled from the entire stablecoin market. Most of its top competitors also finished…
Coinbase: Gold and Silver Futures Now Trade 24/7 in the US
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced on June 13 that gold and silver futures are now trading around the clock in the United States on Coinbase, enabling precious metals onto the…
Zama Users Lose Access to $12.6M USDC After Circle Executes Court-Ordered Blacklist
Circle blacklisted a publicly labeled Ethereum smart contract tied to Zama’s privacy protocol on Saturday, freezing approximately $12.6 million in USDC following a U.S. federal court order connected to a…
Gravity Bridge Drained of $5.4 Million as Hacker Routes Stolen Funds Through Binance
Cross-chain protocol Gravity Bridge was drained of roughly $5.4 million on May 30, with the attacker reportedly funneling part of the haul through Binance and Changenow, blockchain security firm Peckshield…