Circle offers bitcoin loans without lending a dollar
Circle now lets institutions borrow USDC against bitcoin in Circle Mint. The dollars come from DeFi pools, and code decides when to sell.
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SEC proposes crypto custody rules as community banks sue OCC over trust charters
The SEC proposes letting state trust companies hold adviser crypto as community banks sue the OCC over crypto trust charters. What it means for custody.
OpenUSD goes live and hands the interest to its partners
OUSD went live paying partners nearly all its reserve interest. 25 of 63 USDC partners joined. Why that costs Circle bargaining power, not USDC supply.
Monday: Citi's stablecoin checkout with Coinbase
Citi plans stablecoin checkout with Coinbase, Goldman offers FTIXX through Lynq and Swift's ledger draws connectors. How crypto is moving into the back office.
SEC staff clear token buybacks and let each issuer set its own exit test
SEC staff cleared token buybacks and liquid staking once a network works. The catch: each issuer defines 'works,' and a future SEC can undo it.
The SEC Took the Pen
The SEC legalized onchain US stock trading for five years, by order, two days after the Senate killed Clarity. Almost nothing trading onchain today qualifies.
Clarity’s three IOUs
The final Clarity Act text gives Democrats delayed ethics rules, developers a civil-only shield and banks an 18-month rewards brake. What each side got, and what it didn't.
Robinhood built a bigger business that makes less money
A tenth the take.
21 globally systemic banks to launch stablecoin
Shared float.
A Wyoming Bank Beat JPMorgan Out the Door
Narrow banking.
Cloudflare gives AI agents a corporate card
Spend management.
Circle Built a $73 Billion Dollar and Keeps a Quarter of a Cent
Circle reported $701 million in Q2 revenue this morning, took final approval from the OCC for its national trust bank charter, and set 16 September as the mainnet date for Arc, its own settlement chain, with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, and Mastercard among the founding validators.
Tether’s gold pile grows while its safety buffer shrinks
Tether published its Q2 2026 attestation in late July.
Ten European banks launch joint blockchain
In 1973, a group of banks had a problem: none of them trusted a rival to run the wires between them.
one clause decides crypto's decade
The market-structure fight is narrowing to a single clause — and the outcome could set crypto's US path for the decade.
DTCC traded tokenized stocks in production
DTCC moved tokenized equities from pilot language into production. The real signal is what market infrastructure now treats as deployable.
Swift Goes On-Chain: 17 Banks Pilot 24/7 Tokenized Payments
Seventeen banks tested 24/7 tokenized payments with Swift, pushing interoperability closer to institutional production.
Robinhood just rented a bank
Robinhood combined a blockchain, stock tokens and agentic trading — the clearest attempt yet to turn brokerage distribution into financial infrastructure.
The interest business
This week, the Open Standard consortium announced Open USD, backed by more than 140 founding members, including BlackRock, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, Ripple, Kraken, Galaxy, Robinhood, and others.
Robots got bank accounts
Mastercard announced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), Visa announced Agent Score.