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AI

Base Doubles Down on Global Markets, Stablecoins, and AI Agents

Coinbase’s Layer 2 shifts focus to tokenizing every major asset class and scaling stablecoin payments. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io…
Markets

CLARITY Act deadline in weeks could kill stablecoin earnings and push money into Bitcoin

Senate Banking is targeting the second half of April for a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with…
Infrastructure

The stablecoin question is: Who gets paid?

Stablecoin infrastructure delivers velocity but issuers and exchanges capture the rent. Velocity beats market cap as digital dollars become invisible…
Markets

Cross-Border FX Startup OpenFX Raises $94 Million, Hits $45 Billion in Annual Volume

OpenFX, the cross-border payments startup using stablecoins as a settlement layer, raised $94 million in a Series A led by…
Infrastructure

OpenFX raises $94M to speed up cross-border payments with stablecoins

OpenFX raised $94 million in a Series A round to expand its stablecoin-based FX network, as firms explore faster cross-border…
Payments

Square Begins Automatic Bitcoin Payment Rollout to Millions of U.S. Merchants

Bitcoin Magazine Square Begins Automatic Bitcoin Payment Rollout to Millions of U.S. Merchants Square began automatically enabling bitcoin payments for…
AI

Ripple pushes a more private blockchain to banks and adds AI code checks as fears grow it could leave XRP price behind

Ripple is trying to reshape the institutional case for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) around two issues that have long limited…
DeFi

Three Reasons Why Circle’s Stock Is Under Pressure

A yield ban, a rival’s audit, and an unresolved legislative clock have left Circle’s stock in limbo for the past…
Markets

Stablecoin payments go 'invisible' in Southeast Asia as crypto card business surges

StraitsX, a Singapore-based company, has seen rapid growth in its stablecoin card program, with a 40x surge in transaction volume…
DeFi

No one is 100% happy with the stablecoin yield agreement: State of Crypto

The crypto and banking industries saw Senators Alsobrooks and Tillis’ agreement-in-principle for stablecoin yield. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →