Western Union bets against itself
Western Union's new stablecoin card may erase its own margins, plus Mastercard closes its $1.8B BVNK deal and Visa goes live on 18B endpoints.
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How Tether stayed in Europe without MiCA
Tether's Revolut exit reveals a MiCA workaround with a $2.8M hole, plus Kraken's wallet buyout, a Bank of Italy remittance study, and Circle's trust charter.
Samsung puts a stablecoin in your pocket
Samsung is putting USDC inside Galaxy Wallet, plus a $180M AI-native clearing bank, a 99.9% algo-stablecoin collapse, and the CLARITY Act's ethics logjam.
Visa ships, Washington stalls
Visa launched a stablecoin platform for banks two days before regulators missed the GENIUS Act deadline, plus Bolivia's dollar crunch and three bridge hacks.
Circle's bank charter, Visa's war
Circle just won a federal trust bank charter for USDC days after Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe's rival stablecoin threatened its business model.
Open USD guts Circle's stock
A 140-company consortium's Open USD launch tanked Circle's stock, while MiCA's deadline finally pushed USDT out of the EU.
Ethena's shrinking dollar hits Nasdaq
StablecoinX went public on a synthetic dollar that's shrunk 70% since October, days after the Fed flagged its exact risk, plus Japan's stablecoin fight.
State Street and Fidelity's reserve land grab
Six Wall Street giants now run stablecoin reserve funds, plus a neobank launch, a Ripple bet on Africa, and an 80% depeg.
MUFG, Mizuho, SMBC share a printing press
Japan's three biggest banks team up on a yen stablecoin, plus NYDFS, the OCC, Zelle, and a Tether freeze round out the week.
Circle's stock forgot USDC was stable
Bitcoin lost 20% in a week and Circle's stock fell 23% with it, but USDC and USDT barely moved off their dollar peg.