Follow crypto adoption news across institutions, governments, merchants, and consumers as digital assets move further into everyday use.
A president linked to branded tokens and crypto ventures creates an ethics problem with a much shorter fuse than most older business conflicts.
Andjela Radmilac 5 min read 
China is turning Hong Kong into an offshore hub for yuan liquidity, gold settlement, and bond access as it builds an institutional alternative to dollar-dominated stablecoins.
Circle National Trust will open with custody for Circle and its affiliates, while custody for select institutions and USDC reserve management remain future possibilities.
The Executive Council voted 3-2 against the proposal, halting a structure that would have moved BTC collateral from credit design into a state-linked approval process.
The EU’s post-transition crypto regime is deciding who controls the compliant rails for stablecoins, wallets and retail access.
XRPL’s stablecoin supply is nearing $900 million, but the bigger signal is USDV’s arrival as a second dollar token, testing whether the network can become a multi-issuer settlement rail beyond Ripple’s RLUSD.
More than $124 trillion in US household wealth is set to change hands by 2048, and the generations receiving it hold crypto at rates several times higher than the generations giving it.
With Wall Street and ETF rails shut, BTC keeps trading, proving that always-on access can also mean thinner liquidity.
Crypto set out to remove financial intermediaries, but the industry's most successful products now depend on them.
