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Stablecoins Are Quietly Replacing Bitcoin as Latin America's Preferred Crypto Asset
Here's what's happening: stablecoins are outpacing Bitcoin as the crypto of choice across Latin America, according to fresh data from Bitso, the regio...
Tether's Strategic Play: Twenty One Capital Merger Could Reshape Bitcoin Infrastructure
Tether's making a bold move in the bitcoin infrastructure space. The stablecoin giant proposed a merger between Twenty One Capital, Strike, and Elekt...
Tether-Linked Billionaire Quietly Handed Farage $6.7M While Crypto Funding Questions Mount
Christopher Harborne, a major stakeholder in Tether—the stablecoin platform that underpins crypto trading globally—gave Reform UK leader Nigel Farage ...
Tether Enters Bitcoin Mining Hardware Space With Modular Rig Strategy
Tether, the stablecoin powerhouse behind USDT, is making a strategic pivot into Bitcoin mining infrastructure. The company has partnered with hardwar...
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Tether Bridges Bitcoin Mining Fragmentation With New Open-Source Protocol
Tether is making a play in the mining infrastructure space, launching an open-source framework designed to consolidate the fragmented landscape of bit...
Western Union Targets May Launch Window for USDPT Stablecoin Push
Western Union is making a serious play in the crypto space. CEO Devin McGranahan outlined the company's strategy to expand adoption of digital assets...
Tether Executes Major USDT Freeze as Law Enforcement Coordination Intensifies
Tether has executed one of its most significant asset freezes to date, immobilizing $344 million in USDT stablecoins identified as connected to illici...
Ripple's Singapore Play: Testing RLUSD in MAS Sandbox Won't Equal Regulatory Green Light
Ripple is conducting a controlled experiment inside Singapore's Monetary Authority (MAS) regulatory sandbox to test its RLUSD stablecoin for real trad...
USDT Pulls Further Away From USDC as DeFi Users Flee to Market Leader
Tether's dominance in the stablecoin market just got more pronounced. USDT hit an all-time high market cap, and the shift toward Tether reveals somet...
Nium Pairs with Coinbase to Embed USDC Across Global Payment Corridors
Singapore fintech Nium is making a strategic move to expand its crypto payment infrastructure by integrating Coinbase's USDC stablecoin into its cross...
Tether's Strategic Bitcoin Mining Play: 8.2% Stake in Antalpha Signals Aggressive Infrastructure Push
Tether just made another bold move in its infrastructure expansion strategy, grabbing an 8. 2% stake in Antalpha—the bitcoin mining finance platform t...
Iran Accepts Bitcoin for Oil Tolls, But Stablecoins Remain the Real Currency of Choice
Iran's decision to accept Bitcoin for oil tanker tolls through the Strait of Hormuz is a striking endorsement of crypto's anti-censorship utility—but ...
Fragmented Stablecoin Liquidity Is Creating an Onchain FX Market—And It's Messy for Big Players
Stablecoins promise frictionless dollar movement across blockchains. The reality?
Singapore Gulf Bank Launches Direct Stablecoin Minting—What Institutional Traders Need to Know
The Bahrain-based lender is now offering institutional clients a direct pathway to convert fiat into US dollar-pegged stablecoins via their bank accou...
Sanctioned Grinex Exchange Shuts Down After $14M Heist Linked to State-Level Actors
Grinex, a Russia-linked crypto exchange operating from Kyrgyzstan, has suspended all trading following a sophisticated attack that drained over 1 bill...
Drift Protocol Pivots to Tether, Abandons Circle Stablecoin Following $148M Exploit Recovery
Drift Protocol is making a strategic stablecoin pivot in the wake of its recent DeFi exploit, shifting from Circle's USDC to Tether's USDT as it execu...
Tether Backs $150M Drift Protocol Recovery as Stablecoin Giant Steps Into DeFi Crisis Management
Tether is throwing serious capital at Drift Protocol's catastrophic $280 million exploit from April, committing $127. 5 million of a $150 million reco...
Tether Rolls Out Self-Custodial Wallet: Expanding USDT Beyond Trading Platforms
Tether is making a strategic move to own more of the user experience by launching its own self-custodial wallet, signaling the stablecoin giant's inte...
Circle Eyes Arc Network Token Launch as Layer-1 Blockchain Inches Toward Mainnet
Circle's CEO Jeremy Allaire has signaled the company remains on track to launch its stablecoin-focused layer-1 blockchain, with mainnet deployment hap...
Tether Makes Bold Consumer Wallet Play With Self-Custody Model and Cloud Backup
Tether is making its most aggressive push into direct consumer crypto yet. The stablecoin heavyweight just launched tether.