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Trump is pressing the Senate to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before August 11, but stablecoin disputes and procedural headwinds are pushing the landmark bill to the brink.…
Cut off from the traditional dollar system by US sanctions, Venezuela has turned to stablecoins as functional digital dollars — validating the technology's real-world utility under extreme financial pressure.…
Financial regulators are now asking whether artificial intelligence poses the biggest systemic threat to banking since the global financial crisis — a warning that can no longer be dismissed.…
OKX Europe launches a one-way USDT-to-USDC conversion tool, offering European crypto holders a regulated path forward under the EU's MiCA stablecoin rules.…
South Korea's central bank plans to launch a second phase of its CBDC pilot in September, adding two regional banks and testing government subsidy payments via tokenized deposits.…
Euroclear has appointed Usman Ahmad, co-founding CEO of Zodia Markets, to a newly created Head of Digital Assets role as it pursues tokenisation and digital settlement.…
South Korea's FSC has investigated 40 crypto manipulation cases and referred over 30 to investigative agencies in the two years since its Virtual Asset User Protection Law took effect.…
Allbridge Core suspended its cross-chain stablecoin protocol after an attacker used a $1.12M USDC flash loan from Kamino Finance to drain $1.65M from Solana liquidity pools.…
Allbridge Core suspended its protocol after an attacker drained over $1 million from its stablecoin liquidity pools, as July 2026 crypto exploit losses mount to $57.8 million.…
Japan's SBI Holdings has completed its majority acquisition of Singapore crypto platform Coinhako via SBI Ventures Asset, following regulatory clearance from MAS.…
ACI Worldwide is exploring the sale of its electronic billing unit at a US$1.5 billion valuation, signaling a significant strategic reshaping of the payments technology firm.…
Brent crude surging past $90 on day ten of the US-Iran conflict is stoking inflation fears and sending shockwaves through Bitcoin and broader crypto markets.…