🇺🇸 BREAKING: The US OCC finalizes GENIUS Act rules for stablecoin issuers, covering reserves, redemptions, and custody. Effective January 18, 2027.
LATEST: 🇯🇵 South Korea's Shinhan Card is partnering with SBI VC Trade and SBI XDC Network APAC to pilot yen stablecoin payments for travelers and ... Show more
🚨 TODAY: MoonPay teams up with Upbit parent Dunamu to explore stablecoin payments and corporate treasury tools, linking its global network to Dunamu’s GIWA ... Show more
🇺🇸 JUST IN: Samsung is bringing USDC on both Solana and Sui to 82 million US Galaxy devices, with the Solana rollout starting the last week of October.
🇲🇾 🇹🇭 LATEST: Malaysia and Thailand’s central banks join Singapore’s BLOOM initiative for cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit payments.
UPDATE: 🏦 The American Bankers Association criticized the OCC’s GENIUS Act final rule, warning it fails to close a stablecoin yield loophole that could trigger ... Show more
🔥 TODAY: Circle minted another 250M $USDC on Solana.
⚡️ LATEST: Mastercard introduces Stablecoin Security to help financial institutions detect fraud, scams and sanctions risks in stablecoin payments ... Show more
LATEST: ⚡️ 77% of stablecoin transfers on BNB Chain in Q3 were under $100, while transfers of $10,000 or more moved two-thirds of all value ... Show more
LATEST: 🏦 HSBC launched RedCoin, its first Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, with more than 3.3M PayMe users soon eligible to make transfers and merchant payments ... Show more
LATEST: 🏦 Sweden's central bank is urging lawmakers to reconsider a digital krona, arguing it would help safeguard the country's monetary control as ... Show more
ICYMI: 📊 Stablecoin transfer volume hit $891B in Q3 2026, more than 4x its early 2023 level, per a Coinbase-commissioned report.
Stablecoin remittances cost 84% less than traditional transfers, report finds : Sending $200 through stablecoin-funded payment rails costs just $2 ...
cointelegraph.com/news/stablecoin-remittances-cost-savings-traditional-transfers
Stablecoin remittances cost 84% less than traditional transfers ...
🔥 TODAY: Standard Chartered now offers institutional custody for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger and is working with Ripple and LMAX Group to make ... Show more
Key FactsEvernorth Debuts on Nasdaq With 473 Million XRP
Oct 12, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: coinmarketcap.com
  • After completing its merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II on October 9, XRPN entered Nasdaq trading on Monday.

  • Ripple, a linked trust and the sponsor supplied roughly 80% of the XRP; Evernorth purchased 84 million in November 2025.

  • At 11:35 a.m. ET Monday, XRP recorded losses of 1.9% over 24 hours and 7.9% across seven days.

  • Evernorth intends to lend XRP, provide liquidity and pursue yield strategies, but released no timetable for additional purchases.
  • We would rather be a participant in this transformation than a spectator of it.
    — Asheesh Birla, Evernorth founder and CEO, wrote in The Block.
LATEST: ⚡ Phantom is rolling out Kalshi prediction markets to US users, letting them trade event contracts in the wallet app and fund positions with its CASH ... Show more
Injective, BDACS plan Korean won stablecoin settlement for tokenized assets : Injective partners with South Korea’s BDACS to bring the KRW1 stablecoin to ...
ct.com/news/injective-bdacs-korean-won-stablecoin-tokenized-assets
Injective, BDACS plan Korean won stablecoin settlement for tokenized ...
🇺🇸 NEW: The Blockchain Association submitted comments on Treasury’s proposed GENIUS Act rule for stablecoin issuance, urging clearer definitions and narrower ... Show more
🇫🇷 REGULATION: French MPs voted 38 to 37 to tax crypto-to-stablecoin swaps at 31.4% from 2027, with only 100 of 577 lawmakers bothering to show up.
LATEST: 📊 Grayscale’s Zach Pandl argues Solana’s speed and scale advantage put it in a category of its own, leading all chains in stablecoin transactions ... Show more
LATEST: 🇪🇺 The European Banking Authority has classified USDC as the first significant e-money token under MiCA, making it the only one of 45 EU-notified ... Show more
Circle’s Allaire says stablecoin issuer looking to enter 40 developing markets: Report
cointelegraph.com/news/circles-allaire-says-stablecoin-issuer-looking-to-enter-40-developing-markets-report
Circle’s Allaire says stablecoin issuer looking to enter 40 developing ...
⚡️ BRIAN ARMSTRONG: “Every business needs a stablecoin strategy. The ones that move first will win customers.”
LATEST: 📊 69% of US payments and finance leaders use stablecoins operationally, and 82% expect them to become part of their financial infrastructure within ... Show more
LATEST: ⚡️ Visa has partnered with Mesh to let users spend crypto and stablecoin balances directly from their wallet apps at any of its 175M merchant locations.
LATEST: ⚡️ Visa Direct has moved its stablecoin capabilities from pilot to production, with Inyo Global as its first enabler ... Show more
LATEST: ⚡️ MoneyGram launched a new app that embeds stablecoin tech behind a mainstream consumer interface, letting users send ... Show more
🔥 NEW: Stripe and Plasma are teaming up to launch multi-currency stablecoin cards that let users spend balances across countries without costly conversions.
🔥 BIG: Nearly half of Asia-Pacific consumers plan to use stablecoins within five years, yet 41% think they always go up in value, per Visa.
LATEST: ⚡️ Circle says USDC settled more than $36T in onchain volume in H1 2026, generating $1.4 billion in revenue and paying $819 million of it to ... Show more
🇬🇧 JUST IN: Bank of England’s Sarah Breeden sees no rush for a digital pound, citing stablecoins and tokenized deposits as alternatives, per Bloomberg.
LATEST: 📰 Ark Invest says stablecoins have reshaped its emerging-market Bitcoin thesis, but the firm remains bullish on BTC over a five-year horizon.
LATEST: 🏦 Citi will let institutional clients take stablecoin payments at checkout through Spring by Citi, with Coinbase converting them to fiat so merchants ... Show more
LATEST: ⚡ Tempo says a proposed US accounting change could let stablecoins with direct redemption rights count as cash equivalents on company balance sheets.
LATEST: ⚡ Base launched Earn & Borrow, a stack that lets platforms offer customers variable stablecoin yield and crypto-collateralized loans via lending ... Show more
LATEST: 🤖 Hedera announced Agent Accounts, non-custodial spending accounts that let AI agents pay in HBAR or USDC within daily and per-transaction limits ... Show more
ICYMI: ⚡️ Polkadot launched dotUSD, a decentralized stablecoin governed by the DOT DAO through OpenGov.
Samsung taps Solana and Sui to launch zero-fee USDC global remittances on 82 million phones
coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/08/solana-partners-with-samsung-to-integrate-usdc-in-82-million-phones
Samsung taps Solana and Sui to launch zero-fee USDC global remittances on ...
🇸🇬 TOKEN2049: Eric Trump says "we're winning, because stablecoins are being adopted," pointing to credit card companies as the proof.
LATEST: ⚡️ Samsung Wallet will add native USDC support for 82 million eligible US Galaxy devices in the last week of October.
LATEST: 🤖 Celo’s core developers launched Buy, a marketplace where AI agents autonomously pay for services like compute, data and APIs in stablecoins ... Show more
Your Startup Earns Rewards on Its Stablecoins. That Money Could Stop in January: The GENIUS Act will soon bar stablecoin issuers from paying holders to keep ...
inc.com/tobi-opeyemi-amure/startup-earns-rewards-stablecoins-money-genius-act-january/91416516
Your Startup Earns Rewards on Its Stablecoins. That Money Could Stop in ...
Payments platform gets testing licence: A digital wallet developed in Bermuda has been granted a testing licence from the Bermuda Monetary Authority ...
royalgazette.com/local-business/business/article/20261005/payments-platform-gets-testing-licence/
Payments platform gets testing licence
LATEST: ⚡️ Base creator Jesse Pollak told The Block that tokenized equities and non-dollar stablecoins will drive the next "tokenization supercycle."
China’s P2P stablecoin wallets surge 43x, Korea’s $450B crypto economy: Asia Express
ct.com/magazine/chinas-p2p-stablecoin-wallets-surge-43x-koreas-450b-crypto-economy-asia-express
China’s P2P stablecoin wallets surge 43x, Korea’s $450B crypto economy: ...
🇫🇷 REGULATION: A French parliamentary committee approved a tax on stablecoin trades and an exit tax on crypto in the 2027 budget bill ... Show more
LATEST: 🇫🇷 A French National Assembly committee approved a proposal to tax crypto swaps into fiat-pegged stablecoins from Jan. 1, 2027.
LATEST: 📊 Visa says payments volume across its stablecoin-linked card programs has grown nearly 200% YoY, with ~17% of that volume now coming from business and ... Show more
ICYMI: 🇰🇬 The Kyrgyzstan government ordered the gold-backed USDKG stablecoin to wind down, with all 50M tokens set to be burned after holders exchange them for ... Show more
LATEST: ⚡ Ether.​fi has launched Ether.​fi USD, its own US dollar-denominated stablecoin powered by Ethena, aiming to make stablecoins native across its ... Show more
LATEST: ⚡️ Stripe's Henri Stern told CoinDesk the payments giant expects to roll out its stablecoin card programs to more than 100 countries by the end of ... Show more
LATEST: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan's central bank has signed an MoU with Tether to explore a tenge-pegged stablecoin.
‘Euro stablecoin isn’t enough’: EU issuers make case for USD tokens: AllUnity, Stable Mint, Fiat Republic and SG-Forge explain why European businesses still need ...
cointelegraph.com/news/euro-stablecoin-not-enough-eu-case-usd-tokens
‘Euro stablecoin isn’t enough’: EU issuers make case for USD tokens
ICYMI: 🏦 Stablecoin payments firm Rain has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank charter, which would let it issue stablecoins and hold custody and ... Show more
LATEST: ⚡️ Stripe added Open USD to its stablecoin stack, making the new stablecoin from Open Standard available to businesses with free USD-OUSD conversions.
OKX eyes emerging markets with yield-offering stablecoin savings and payments app
cointelegraph.com/news/okx-money-stablecoin-savings-payments-emerging-markets
OKX eyes emerging markets with yield-offering stablecoin savings and ...
🔥 INSIGHT: Tokenization may already be too big to stop. Raoul Pal of Real Vision told Ciaran Lyons that every step Nasdaq ... Show more
LATEST: 📊 46% of Asia Pacific consumers say they're likely to use stablecoins within five years, though only 16% have used them in the past 12 months ... Show more
LATEST: 🇪🇺 Stand With Crypto EU says more than 50,000 Europeans wrote to the European Commission urging it to allow stablecoin rewards as the MiCA review ... Show more
LATEST: 📊 SF Fed researchers say stablecoin issuers' demand for short-term US Treasuries could climb to about $400B by the end of 2030 ... Show more
LATEST: 📊 Bloomberg launched a stablecoin dashboard on its Terminal, tracking supply, mints, burns, transfers and velocity for every stablecoin above $100M in ... Show more
🇪🇺 LATEST: ESMA proposes expanding MiCA rules to cover DeFi gateways, staking and crypto lending, alongside stricter restrictions on services involving ... Show more
Stablecoins can drain from banks and nations at lightning speed: Stablecoins make cross-border payments much faster, but that speed could also accelerate money ...
ct.com/magazine/stablecoins-can-drain-from-banks-and-nations-at-lightning-speed
Stablecoins can drain from banks and nations at lightning speed
LATEST: 🇺🇸 Senator Steve Daines unveiled a crypto tax bill that would exempt stablecoins used for small purchases from capital gains and add wash-sale rules ... Show more
LATEST: 📊 Cathie Wood says "stablecoins are usurping a role that 10 years ago we thought Bitcoin was going to play" for people in emerging markets ... Show more
LATEST: 🏦 Lloyds Banking Group and Visa completed a 7-day pilot settling $750,000 in USDC, with funds reaching Visa in under an hour ... Show more
LATEST: 🏦 HSBC has named its Hong Kong-dollar stablecoin "HSBC RedCoin," with a launch planned for H2 2026, starting with P2P and merchant payments.
ICYMI: 🇺🇸 Illinois published draft rules for its 0.2% crypto tax, classifying stablecoins as taxable but NFTs as exempt, with most DeFi transactions also ... Show more
LATEST: 🇸🇻 El Salvador launched Sivar, a national payments app backed by President Bukele that settles remittances as stablecoins on Base for a $2 flat fee.
LATEST: ⚡ Franklin Templeton has extended its collateral program to Bybit, letting eligible clients pledge tokenized money market fund shares for stablecoin ... Show more