Follow crypto adoption news across institutions, governments, merchants, and consumers as digital assets move further into everyday use.
Tether's gold position now rivals that of several sovereign nations, and a new partnership with a lending platform is testing whether tokenized bullion can function as collateral in the same way Bitcoin already does.
Andjela Radmilac 9 min read 
Stablecoins brought digital cash onchain, and tokenized Treasury funds are beginning to supply the yield-bearing collateral digital markets have lacked.
A president linked to branded tokens and crypto ventures creates an ethics problem with a much shorter fuse than most older business conflicts.
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.
