Tag: Stablecoins

Financial services company MoneyGram International has partnered with the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization developing Stellar blockchain, to enable consumer’s cross-border transactions using popular stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) and convert directly to and from fiat. According to an announcement published Wednesday, MoneyGram’s network will integrate with the Stellar blockchain to enable cash funding and…

Previously partnered with COTI, Cardano is going to have its first stablecoin, dubbed Djed, giving space to cheaper transactions and making it easier to run DeFi projects. Software development company COTI announced a few hours ago the issuance of the first stablecoin designed to run on the Cardano blockchain. The news was first revealed by…

Facebook has big plans for expanding in the world of financial services. Its upcoming digital wallet, Novi, will be built upon the still-pending stablecoin Diem to supplant established players like PayPal in the process. The social network’s Novi division will be “a next-generation digital wallet” built upon cryptocurrency that will be nothing short of a…

As Reuters reported Friday, citing three unnamed sources, the US Treasury Department met with a number of industry players this week to discuss the risks and benefits posed by stablecoins – a fast-growing type of cryptocurrencies whose value is tied to traditional currencies. But why are regulators so interested in them? With a market cap…

Diem, the digital currency and global payment system project of Facebook, seemingly can’t cope with its struggle with financial regulators. The payment project has been facing difficulties with senior legislators in the Biden administration. Despite the whole might of the lobbying power of the social media giant, the project of Facebook stablecoin hasn’t been able…

There’s Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin, whose prices are dependent on the volatile cryptocurrency market. And then there’s Tether (USDT), whose price will never float too far away from $1. While this stablecoin is the most popular in the world, it isn’t the only option, writes Jie Yee Ong on MakeUseOf. So, read on to…