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Payments

Synthetix Governance Votes to Retire sUSD, Pay Holders in Vested SNX

Synthetix governance has moved to retire sUSD entirely under SIP-423, introduced June 12. The proposal would freeze the stablecoin contract…
Institutional

British pound stablecoins capped to $53B ceiling as Bank of England sets out stablecoin rules

The new framework removes wallet caps, yet keeps systemic sterling stablecoins far below dollar-token scale at launch. The post British…
Payments

World Liberty Financial's USD1 Supply Grows 9.7% in a Week to $4.85 Billion

USD1’s circulating supply expanded 9.7% over the past seven days to $4.85 billion, a 100th-percentile move that pushes the World…
Infrastructure

MoneyGram joins Solana as validator amid stablecoin payment push

The remittances firm has become a validator on the Solana blockchain, helping process and secure transactions as it expands its…
Institutional

Bank of England eases stablecoin rules, introduces 40B pound issuance cap

The Bank of England published draft rules for systemic stablecoins, easing reserve requirements and replacing holding limits with a temporary…
Payments

Africa’s crypto crackdown is really a remittance revolution

Africa has never been friendly to crypto. Despite incredible adoption numbers on the continent, African governments have met almost every…
Markets

Ethereum's biggest 'sandwich' bot drained of $7.5 million in ironic exploit

Blockaid said an attacker tricked Jaredfromsubway.eth into approving fake trading routes, then used those approvals to drain WETH, USDC and…
AI

AWS Plugs Coinbase's x402 Into CloudFront, Letting Publishers Charge AI Agents in USDC

AWS turned on AI traffic monetization inside AWS WAF on Monday, letting any site behind Amazon CloudFront charge AI agents…
Infrastructure

GoMining challenges Jack Dorsey's Square with payments system designed around bitcoin

GoMining unveiled a software development kit and programmable access for its bitcoin payment protocol GoBTC Pay, allowing merchants to accept…
Payments

Global $2.75B payments deal shows stablecoins moving into the rails they were meant to bypass

The $2.75 billion acquisition points to token settlement moving inside regulated payment networks before it replaces them. The post Global…