Tether co-founder Reeve Collins expects “all currency” to become stablecoins by 2030 as part of a broader shift that will see all forms of finance go onchain. “All currency will be a stablecoin. So even fiat currency will be a stablecoin. It’ll just be called dollars, euros, or yen,” said Collins in a wide-ranging interview…

Stablecoin transfers surged to a record $15.6 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, with much of the activity linked to automated trading bots, according to new research from crypto exchange CEX.io. On Wednesday, CEX.io’s market research analyst Illya Otychenko dubbed the third quarter of 2025 the “most active period” for stablecoins. During the quarter, the value…

The ballooning financial deficit of France’s central bank may spur a new wave of money printing, potentially unlocking billions in new capital for Bitcoin. France’s central bank, the Banque de France (BdF), reported a net loss of 7.7 billion euros ($8 billion) in fiscal year 2024, mainly driven by negative net interest income due to…

The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA), the agricultural regulator for the emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced a ban on using agricultural land for crypto mining. Violators will face a 100,000 AED fine ($27,229), and the ADAFSA will suspend municipal services, confiscate mining hardware, and disconnect the farmland from…

Layer-1 blockchain Aptos has announced a collaboration with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial to deploy USD1 stablecoins. Aptos CEO Avery Ching said that they have been in conversation with the Trump-linked DeFi project for a while and “they view us as some of the best tech partners they could work with.” Speaking to Cointelegraph…

Visa has launched a pilot allowing banks and financial institutions to pre-fund cross-border payments using stablecoins. Announced at SIBOS 2025, the Visa Direct stablecoin pilot enables select partners to use Circle’s USDC and EURC as pre-funded assets to facilitate near-instant payouts, according to a Tuesday announcement. “Cross-border payments have been stuck in outdated systems for far…

Blockchain oracle provider Chainlink announced one of the first products from a pilot with UBS Asset Management and Swift, the global financial messaging network, designed to let banks trigger onchain transactions using their existing infrastructure. According to a Tuesday announcement, Chainlink integrated its execution layer, the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), with Swift messaging. The move enables banks…

dYdX and Pocket Pro Bot have launched a social-first integration that lets users create wallets and trade perpetuals with their friends directly inside Telegram group chats. From the earliest Bitcoin forums to today’s group chats, crypto has always thrived in online communities, and Telegram, nearing a billion users worldwide, has become one of the busiest meeting grounds. Conversations there…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has signalled that it won’t take enforcement action against tokens tied to blockchain-based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN). In a no-action letter on Monday, SEC Division of Corporation Finance chief counsel Michael Seaman said he “will not recommend enforcement action” to the SEC for the planned token launch of the DePIN project DoubleZero….

Qatar National Bank Group (QNB), one of the Middle East’s largest banks, has adopted JPMorgan’s blockchain platform, Kinexys, to process corporate payments in Qatar, according to a Monday Bloomberg report. The switch marks a departure from the constraints of traditional banking infrastructure, where cross-border payments are limited to weekdays and can take days to complete….