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Executives from MoonPay, Ripple and Paxos said at Consensus Miami 2026 that stablecoins have moved from a cryptocurrency niche to an institutional priority, but the next phase of adoption will depend on infrastructure, privacy and real-world usability. Richard Harrison, MoonPay’s vice president of banking and payments partnerships, said traditional financial firms are getting into stablecoins…
XRP continues to approach the top of its recent range, a move that is starting to take on more significance as liquidity has subsided while price continues to compress below resistance. This combination tends to make breakouts more dramatic once the market finally chooses a direction. news background • Analysts continue to point to a…
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde opposes private issuance of euro-pegged stablecoins, even though 98% of the market is made up of dollar-pegged tokens. Despite the rapid global adoption of U.S. dollar stablecoins, Lagarde, speaking at the Bank of Spain’s Latin American Economic Forum in Madrid on Friday, argued that Europe should focus on…
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde opposes private issuance of euro-pegged stablecoins, even though 98% of the market is made up of dollar-pegged tokens. Despite the rapid global adoption of U.S. dollar stablecoins, Lagarde, speaking at the Bank of Spain’s Latin American Economic Forum in Madrid on Friday, argued that Europe should focus on…
Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has applied for a national trust company license from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as it looks to expand its regulated digital asset custody business, according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk on Friday. If approved, the charter would establish the Payward…
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said on Friday that the agency is considering changes to how securities regulations apply to blockchain-based financial markets and artificial intelligence-driven financial applications as digital asset companies increasingly move trading and settlement activities on-chain. Speaking at the AI+ Expo in Washington, Atkins said the SEC is considering…
MIAMI BEACH, FL — The atmosphere at the EasyA Hackathon held within Consensus Miami 2026 felt less like a traditional cryptocurrency developer event and more like a live audition for the next generation of blockchain and AI-native startups. Nearly 1,000 developers competed at the venue, some from established crypto ecosystems like Base and Solana, others…
Risk appetite spread further into the cryptocurrency market on Friday as Bitcoin held above $80,000 and stocks hit new highs, boosting investment in altcoins and blockchain infrastructure. Solana (SOL), Chainlink association$10.54, Sui$1.0806 and point$1.3765 is up about 5%, while Near Protocol (NEAR) and Uniswap (UNI) are up about 7%. The Internet Computer Protocol’s ICP rose…
The Senate Banking Committee plans to hold a long-awaited hearing on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (also known as the Clarity Act) on Thursday, May 14 at 10:30 a.m. The Clarification Act has been largely deadlocked since Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced in January that the exchange would remove support for stablecoin…
A federal judge in Manhattan has cleared the way for Aave’s recovery efforts following last month’s North Korea-related rsETH breach, allowing $71 million worth of frozen ether to be transferred out of Arbitrum while preserving North Korean terrorism victims’ legal claims to the funds. In a two-page order issued late Friday US time, Judge Margaret…