Oak HC/FT is funding the unglamorous half of stablecoin payments — licences, audits and local scheme connections — while Circle pays nine times more in stock to buy the same capability outright.
September 10
A central bank running permissioned-chain code on its own hardware is a heavier reference than a proof of concept, and it moves the hard question from privacy to interoperability.
Sep 10
The Stripe- and Uber-alumni startup is betting that the value in stablecoin rails sits at the moment tokens become local money, not in the transfer itself.
Sep 9
A v3.5 market splits Compound's liquidity, gives whitelisted borrowers their own terms, and leaves the stress parameters off the page.
Sep 8
The weekly purchase still reads as intent, but the 85% staked share is now the number that moves the company.
September 8
The seed round is a fraction of the $88.3 billion it aims to protect, yet the structure splits capital from adjudication to address the conflict that has kept onchain cover marginal.
September 1
The $370 million purchase was funded by selling MSTR shares and partly allocated to STRC dividends and buybacks, making the bitcoin treasury's endurance a function of the stock price.
August 31
The miner's staked position has been flat for four weeks while its holdings march toward 5.9M ETH; the unstaked 834,000 ETH is the capital that will test MAVAN.
August 31
A conditional plan to lend against digital assets makes credit, not payments, the adoption path in Russia's new regulated regime.
August 31
A $369.7 million purchase, funded by stock sales and paired with preferred buybacks, shows the board's capital framework working as designed.
August 31
The GENIUS Act made the plumbing legal; now the hard problem is the last mile in local currency.
August 31
The Dunamu partnership hands Visa the exchange rails to match Shinhan's bank rails, and tests whether the revenue split is simple enough for merchants to care.
August 28
A $100 million commitment tests whether SPV-wrapped GPUs can turn stablecoin capital into equipment-finance credit.
August 28
The Plasma launch gives USDC a 37th native chain, though the more consequential number is the 28 chains CCTP now connects.
August 28
The Stripe-owned stablecoin firm says the next wave of growth lies in tokenized euros, pesos, and pounds — but the yield story runs straight back to U.S. Treasuries.
August 28
HashKey Exchange plans to put HKDAP to work on cross-border trade with the UAE and commercial insurance payouts, giving the city's licensed token a real-world test.
August 19
The Japanese bitcoin treasury firm will hold a 95.7% stake in the renamed Superplanet and use bitcoin as collateral for preferred stock financing.
August 19
The first regional Korean bank to deploy Ripple Payments extends the company's institutional push beyond the country's biggest financial firms.
August 18
Saylor's retreat from buybacks and pivot to preferred equity redraws how corporate bitcoin holders manage capital.
August 18
The card network's request for a licensed over-the-counter and settlement partner, seen by CoinDesk, points to a future of multiple stablecoin issuers.
August 18
Ripple's third Korean institutional deal of 2026 puts stablecoin settlement inside a traditional provincial lender.
August 18