Tag: Stablecoin

Why Japan’s Stablecoin Push May Be the Most Practical Crypto Story in the World Right Now โ€“ Featured Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Japanโ€™s Payment Services Act, revised in June 2023 and updated through 2026, created the worldโ€™s strictest stablecoin issuer rules. Project Pax, backed by MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho, targets 1 trillion yen in B2B stablecoin issuance by 2028. JPYC became the worldโ€™s first fully regulated yen-pegged stablecoin under a Type II license in October 2025. The Most Important Crypto Standards Nobody Is Talking About While U.S. regulators spend years sorting out jurisdictional authority and European regulators iron out MiCA compliance, Japan moved. The country revised its Payment Services Act…

New Stablecoin, Faster Order Matching, Smart Contract Wallet Support โ€“ Crypto News Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Polymarket launched Polymarket USD on April 6, 2026, replacing bridged USDC.e as collateral across all prediction markets. The CTF Exchange V2 upgrade cuts gas costs and adds EIP-1271 support, affecting API traders and bot operators within 2-3 weeks. Polymarketโ€™s POLY governance token airdrop, confirmed by CMO in October 2025, remains separate and pending a full U.S. relaunch. Polymarket Upgrades Trading Engine and Drops Bridged USDC.e in Major 2026 Overhaul The move is the platformโ€™s largest infrastructure change since launch. Polymarket has processed record trading volumes over the past…

South Korean Fintech Toss Targets Web3 Finance With Proprietary Mainnet and 24 Stablecoin Trademarks โ€“ Crypto News Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Toss, operated by Viva Republica, is building an L1 blockchain mainnet and native coin to power its 30 million-user financial platform. South Koreaโ€™s pending Digital Asset Basic Law has delayed final decisions on whether Toss pursues an L1 or L2 approach. A Stablecoin Task Force led by Chief Business Officer Kyuha Kim filed 24 KRW stablecoin trademarks in June 2025, including โ€œTOSSKRW.โ€ South Koreaโ€™s Toss Recruits Blockchain Engineers as Mainnet Plans Advance in 2026 The fintech company Toss serves roughly 30 million registered users, close to 60% of…

Stablecoin Supply Rises To $315B As Institutional Flows Lift USDC

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They say journalists never truly clock out. But for Christian, that’s not just a metaphor, it’s a lifestyle. By day, he navigates the ever-shifting tides of the cryptocurrency market, wielding words like a seasoned editor and crafting articles that decipher the jargon for the masses. When the PC goes on hibernate mode, however, his pursuits take a more mechanical (and sometimes philosophical) turn. Christian’s journey with the written word began long before the age of Bitcoin. In the hallowed halls of academia, he honed his craft as a feature writer…

Stablecoin Crypto Supply Reaches $315B in Q1 as USDC Gains and USDT Declines

Total stablecoin supply rose approximately $8 billion to a record $315 billion in the first quarter of 2026, even as broader crypto markets contracted, according to data published by CEX.IO โ€“ with Circleโ€™s USDC expanding its market share while Tetherโ€™s USDT posted its first quarterly supply decline since Q2 2022. The divergence between the two dominant issuers marked one of the more structurally significant shifts in the stablecoin sector in recent years, coinciding with stablecoins capturing 75% of total crypto trading volume, the highest proportion on record. We suspect the…

Monthly Stablecoin Volume Surpassed US ACH in February

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Stablecoin transaction volume surpassed the US Automated Clearing House network for the first time in February, a significant milestone for an asset class that has existed for less than 12 years. According to data from blockchain analytics platform Artemis, the total 30-day adjusted rolling stablecoin volume hit $7.2 trillion in February, beating the Automated Clearing House network at $6.8 trillion. The data is based on 30-day rolling adjusted volume of stablecoin transactions in US dollars, excluding MEV activity and intra-centralized exchange transactions, comparing this to the daily average volume of…

SoFi Technologies Launches First National Bank Enterprise Crypto and Stablecoin Platform โ€“ Bitcoin News

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SoFi Launches Big Business Banking With 24/7 Fiat and Crypto Settlement for U.S. Enterprises SoFi Technologies (Nasdaq: SOFI) made the announcement on Thursday, positioning the product as direct competition to the legacy banking model that shuts down at 5 p.m. on Fridays. The offering targets institutions and enterprise clients that need to operate across both traditional and digital finance without patching together multiple providers and custodians. CEO Anthony Noto framed the gap plainly. โ€œTo be competitive, businesses today must operate in a global, always-on environment 24 hours a day, 7…

NYSE-Listed Bitgo Rolls out Stablecoin Minting Platform for Institutional Clients โ€“ Bitcoin News

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Bitgo Adds Native Stablecoin Minting With USD1 and SoFiUSD Support The New York-based digital asset infrastructure company, which trades on NYSE under the ticker BTGO, announced the new capability on April 2. Bitgo Mint launches with native support for two stablecoins: USD1 and SoFiUSD. Both assets are already integrated into Bitgoโ€™s Stablecoin-as-a-Service product suite. Before Bitgo Mint, institutions handling stablecoin minting and redemption typically coordinated across separate custody providers, compliance systems, and internal operations teams. Bitgo Mint consolidates those steps inside a single interface, pairing mint and redeem functionality with…

US Treasury Seeks Public Input on State-Level Stablecoin Regulations

The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on April 1, 2026, formally soliciting public comment on the requirements that state-level stablecoin regulatory regimes must satisfy under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act โ€“ commonly known as the GENIUS Act โ€“ which President Donald Trump signed into law in July 2025. The NPRM establishes a 60-day comment window, with submissions due approximately early June 2026 and accepted through the federal public docket at regulations.gov. The action arrives as the aggregate market…

Banks Crash CLARITY!!!๐ŸšจCoinbase EXITS Support๐Ÿ”ฅ

โ–ถ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com โ–ถ CEX Website: cex.io The latest CLARITY Act stablecoin yield draft bans passive yield โ€” exactly what banks demanded from the start. Circle lost $5.6 billion in a single session. The markup hasn’t happened yet. Coinbase also refused to support current secret draft bill. ~This episode is sponsored by Tangem~ Tangem โžœ Use Code: “PBN” for Additional Discounts! GUEST: Chris Hayes, Partner at Thorn Run Partners – Digital Assets & Tokenization Team Lead 00:00 Intro 00:10 Sponsor: Tangem 00:50 Collapse 01:45 Yelling + 30min increments +…