Payments
Infrastructure

Ripple invests in Flutterwave, pushing its stablecoin and XRP Ledger into payments across Africa

The deal values Flutterwave at $3.2 billion, and will integrate Ripple’s RLUSD and the XRP Ledger network to speed cross-border…
Institutional

State Street targets stablecoin reserve boom with new money market fund

The asset manager joins BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and others competing to manage reserves backing the growing stablecoin market. Read Full…
Institutional

Scale of Stablecoin Adoption in Nigeria Makes Risks 'More Pronounced', Says IMF

Efforts to suppress stablecoin use are “likely to be only partly effective,” the International Monetary Fund’s researchers said. Read Full…
Payments

Paradigm Leads $9 Million Round in Latin American Stablecoin App El Dorado

Paradigm has led a roughly $9 million round in El Dorado, the stablecoin-powered payments app that has signed up more…
AI

SIREN Token Crashes 95% in a Week After Whale Sells 670M Tokens for $64.8M

A single dominant wallet offloaded roughly 92% of SIREN’s total supply across two days, collecting $64.8 million in Tether and…
Institutional

Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

The Layer 1’s gasless stablecoin design pushed transfer throughput to nearly $65 billion since June 10, recasting Sui as a…
DeFi

Did Tether just freeze $72M in USDT with no link to a hack in Monero money laundering sting?

A reported $120.2 million USDT routing through Monero left about $72 million frozen, but the market impact showed how quickly…
DeFi

World Liberty Financial Pays UFC Freedom 250 Fighters in USD1 at White House

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial funded a $250,000 Performance of the Night bonus pool at UFC Freedom 250, distributing the awards…
Infrastructure

Morpho's $175M raise shows where crypto VC money is flowing

Morpho’s recent $175 million raise reflects growing investor bets on onchain credit infrastructure as stablecoin adoption expands. Read Full Story…
AI

Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC

The XRPL AI Starter Kit gives developers tools for agent payments, but early x402 activity has clustered on Base and…