stablecoin
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After the capital infusion led by Jump Crypto, Pantera Capital and Lightspeed Faction, Figure also seeks to offer a registered security alternative to stablecoins
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We’ve spent all of 2023 doubling down on the real crypto projects of substance — but 2024 is when they will really take off
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We should not let old paradigms prevent respect for the new societal expectation that the money we leave with a financial institution is fully ours
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Binance is preparing to phase out BUSD, but the replacement is struggling to gain on-chain adoption
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While a host of alternatives try to fill market void, Paypal’s stablecoin is slow on the uptake
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Waters says consumers are “at greater risk of harm” at the hands of bad actors without legislation
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At its core, PYUSD is a digital asset run by one of the world’s biggest regulated payments companies
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Tether froze USDT belonging to FTX as speculation spread over whether its sister organization was shorting the stablecoin
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Tether has been ordered to produce general ledgers, balance sheets, income statements as part of a market manipulation suit tied to USDT
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South Korean prosecutors are now formally seeking the arrest of Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon for allegedly violating securities laws
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Months after the crash of UST and LUNA, a $38 million partnership between Terra and the Washington Nationals MLB team remains intact
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A new proposal from Maker co-founder Rune maps plans for a free floating DAI, growing a schism between ‘futurists’ and ‘decentralists’
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Escalating geo-political tensions and a rising dollar has complicated the conversation about stablecoin reserve selection.
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The MakerDAO loan to Huntingdon Valley Bank marks the first integration between a decentralized finance protocol and a traditional bank
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Hackers minted themselves 1.3 billion aUSD tokens on Sunday, sending the dollar-pegged stablecoin as low as $0.07 on KuCoin
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Aave users and borrowers will be allowed to mint GHO against their supplied collaterals while earning interest on the underlying
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Blockworks exclusive: Terraform Labs is creating infrastructure to build DAOs on Terra 2.0
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“Circle will not directly solicit customers outside of the United States until it holds the relevant licenses in those jurisdictions,” a Circle spokesperson told Blockworks
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Tether whales rushed to redeem $16 billion in USDT following the collapse of Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin, rivaling history’s largest bank runs
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After Iowa ordered BlockFi to pay a hefty fine, the state securities regulator has granted the firm a stablecoin trading license
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Crypto usage in countries with unstable currencies could rise further if there’s a world downturn or if inflation continues to rise
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