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More than 140 companies have signed onto a US dollar-pegged stablecoin project that allows them to “receive all of the earnings” from its reserves. In a Tuesday notice, Open Standard said it
Germany and France Lead MiCA Licensing Race The EU had issued 244 Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) licenses as of June 29, according to data from the ESMA
The @bankofengland and @TheFCA have published their joint oversight plan for sterling stablecoins, drawing a clear line between everyday crypto-market coins and those large enough to pose a r
Pi Network Opens Its KYC Stack to the Outside World @PiCoreTeam used Pi2Day 2026 to unveil PiVerify, a sovereign identity verification service that makes Pi Network's real-human KYC capabilit
The $XRP Ledger Foundation has announced a partnership with VS1 Finance to develop an open-source reference application for permissioned, compliant lending on the XRP Ledger, marking a concre
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has cited a Wall Street Journal investigation into CoinEx as evidence that the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act would make illicit crypto finance worse, not better. The
Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ: GLXY), led by Mike Novogratz, was added to the Russell 1000 Index on June 29, 2026, after reaching a market capitalization of approximately $11.55 billion. This inclus
Crypto firms have spent $189 million on the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, already surpassing the industry’s total political spending from the 2024 cycle and cementing the sector as one of the
There is a new stablecoin in town, and an old player's stock is facing the heat. A stablecoin is an integral part of the DeFi infrastructure. It is a cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady
Crypto commentator X Finance Bull has shared a new video from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The video breaks down tokenization in plain terms, and it has caught the attention of the
The crypto industry has contributed $189 million to the 2026 U.S. election cycle so far, pushing political spending beyond 2024 levels months before voters head to the polls. Summary Public C
Key Takeaways MiCA’s transition period ends July 1, 2026, with no extensions. Only a small fraction of Europe’s pre-MiCA crypto firms have secured a license. Licensed exchanges cluster heavil
