The Circle company, known as the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, is set to become a US national commercial bank – a digital bank that combines crypto and fiat payments. This is yet another way the cryptocurrency industry is invading traditional banking. We have only just written about how crypto exchanges are becoming competitors of…
How stable are stablecoins? — asks Elizabeth Lopatto in a study for The Verge. What if a digital currency wipeout could injure — or even destroy — the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem? Lately, there’s been a focus on stablecoins, the quiet power players of the cryptocurrency space. Questions about stablecoins, particularly one called Tether, have been…
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told regulators Monday that the U.S. government must move quickly to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, a rapidly growing class of digital currencies. The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets expects to deliver regulatory recommendations for stablecoins in the coming months. According to Reuters, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen held a…
As many companies inclining towards cryptocurrency as an investment, Apoorva Bellapu at Analytics Insight observes crypto tendencies in 2021. Since the cryptocurrency market had fallen a few days ago, the rush to invest in digital coins raises like never before. Everyone estimates that the market would correct itself in a while and that the prices…
Currently, the cryptocurrency market is clearly showing a decline in major coins, but among all this, a sudden drop, at about the same time, in many major stablecoins, clearly stands out At 13:30 UTC, major cryptocurrencies are bleeding, and the top 10 by market capitalization are seeing losses between bitcoin (BTC)’s 23% and binance coin…