More than half of Americans would use stablecoins if they came with bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance, Visa said in a study released on Wednesday. The numbers were 36% without those safeguards and 56% with them. Those safeguards were hypothetical, and Visa’s release notes that no stablecoin carries deposit insurance today. The same scenario […]
The shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II are set to vote on September 30 on the proposed business combination, on whether Evernorth will be the next cryptocurrency-related company to become public. A potential approval would clear the last major obstacle before the XRP-focused treasury company can begin trading publicly under the XRPN ticker. Will XRPN […]
The spot exchange-traded funds tracking the performance of Ripple’s cross-border token started the week quietly but built on by the end of it, reaching a new cumulative all-time high. At the same time, the products tracking Solana’s SOL are on a green-only streak since September 11, and the inflows peaked on Friday with more than […]
Researchers behind Alloc Init have proposed “Shielded Bitcoin,” a metaprotocol designed to hide BTC transfer amounts and counterparties without changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules or relying on trusted bridge operators. The design borrows the encrypted-note approach Zcash made known, but builds it directly on Bitcoin’s existing base layer, using cryptographic proofs instead of a trusted intermediary […]
The failure of the CLARITY Act in the US Senate on September 15 hasn’t deterred the two largest local regulators from trying to clear the air on crypto regulation in the country, with the Securities and Exchange Commission now issuing fresh staff guidance addressing several long-running questions. The new set of FAQs focuses heavily on […]
Institutional investors are keeping their crypto exposure steady despite the intense turmoil between Q4 2025 and Q2 2026, according to a survey by Bitwise. The firm interviewed 15 institutions and found that none cut their allocation during a period when the market fell by about 50%. Bitcoin Is the Institutional Favorite Crypto allocations remain relatively […]
The Federal Reserve has proposed two rules to help establish oversight for stablecoin issuers under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act. The proposals were announced by the central bank on Thursday and opened for public comment. Stricter Stablecoin Oversight The first proposal would require payment stablecoin issuers supervised by the […]
Bitcoin’s impressive rally that began in August and culminated, for now, a few days ago with a surge past $87,000 could be in serious jeopardy as the tension in the Middle East has escalated once again. The Wall Street Journal reported that US President Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s latest peace proposal and even warned […]
HIFI, the New York stablecoin infrastructure company that took part in DTCC’s July tokenized securities trades, raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital, it said on Thursday, with the money going to licenses, cards and capital markets. Matthew Miller, Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital, joins the board. HIFI said its […]
KelpDAO has filed a lawsuit against LayerZero and its co-founder Bryan Pellegrino, accusing the bridge provider of security failures behind the $292 million exploit of its rsETH token in April. The suit, filed in British Columbia, is KelpDAO’s most direct attempt yet to hold LayerZero accountable after months of public disagreement over what caused the […]