Fintech
The CLARITY Act Just Made Crypto Regulation a Race to August Recess
The Senate’s revised CLARITY Act adds crypto ethics rules and stablecoin oversight, but its August deadline may be harder than the blockchain.
Fintech
T. Rowe Price Just Put a Crypto Variety Pack in Your Brokerage Account
T. Rowe Price launched TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token crypto ETP that gives investors one ticker for a volatile digital-asset basket.
Fintech
Circle Got a Trust Bank for USDC and Made Crypto Wear a Tie
Circle's new OCC-approved trust bank pulls USDC deeper into the federal perimeter, proving stablecoin ambition now looks less bankless and more chartered.
Fintech
Open USD Turns Stablecoin Reserve Revenue Into a Group Project
Open USD is a new stablecoin backed by Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY, and 140-plus partners that shares reserve revenue.
Fintech
MoneyGram Built a Stablecoin for Remittances and Kept the Cash Window Open
MoneyGram's MGUSD launch shows stablecoins growing up into remittance infrastructure, where cash-out, FX, and settlement timing matter more than crypto ideology.
Crypto
Shill or Be Shilled: Meme Coin Promotion Got Worse, Weirder, and More Official
The meme coin promotion machine now includes launchpads, political tokens, livestream bounties, lawsuits, and enough plausible deniability to power a small exchange.
Fintech
Big Banks Built Tokenized Deposits So Stablecoins Stop Stealing Treasury Work
The Clearing House tokenized-deposit push shows big banks absorbing stablecoin-style speed and programmability into regulated treasury and settlement rails.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: Stablecoins Turned Dollars Into Software. Now Everyone Wants the Toll Booth.
Stablecoins are becoming payment plumbing for merchants, platforms, and bots. This guide explains the tech, incentives, regulation, and hype.
Fintech
Coinbase and PPRO Turn Stablecoins Into Just Another Checkout Button
Coinbase and PPRO's May 27 stablecoin deal shows crypto payments going mainstream by hiding inside merchant software and PSP plumbing already in place.
Fintech
Circle Built an Agent Wallet So USDC Can Charge the Bots
Circle's Agent Stack turns USDC into payment middleware for bots, APIs, and micropayments, showing where fintech wants the next checkout button to live.
Fintech
SoFi Started Minting a Stablecoin, Because the Super App Wasn't Complicated Enough
SoFi has started minting SoFiUSD, revealing a bigger ambition: turn a national bank, a stablecoin, and Mastercard rails into one settlement stack.
Layoffs
Coinbase Discovered AI, So 700 Humans Became a Cost Structure
I like Coinbase. I want Coinbase to win. Which is why watching it dress a plain old layoff in AI-native cosplay is so irritating.