Explore featured CryptoSlate stories, major headlines, and standout reporting from across the crypto, Bitcoin, and Web3 landscape.
Coinbase’s role in Open USD gives the new consortium added weight as Circle defends USDC’s liquidity and distribution moat.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo 7 min read 
Allaire says the stablecoin fight will hinge on liquidity, integrations and regulated usage once OUSD goes live.
ETF outflows, Fed rate risk and Strategy’s shift leave July as a critical month for the crypto market.
The 140-partner model challenges USDC reserve economics while leaving issuer, reserve and redemption tests unresolved.
HB 505 tests whether caps, receipts, warnings, and conditional refunds can shift fraud costs onto kiosk businesses.
The rules do not hand issuance to banks, but reserves, custody, audits and no-yield limits put financial infrastructure first.
The court’s decision may make financial regulators more responsive to presidential priorities just as they prepare to define US digital asset oversight.
MiCA can force unlicensed exchanges out of Europe on paper. OKX Europe’s CEO says the real test is whether offshore apps are still one tap away.
From July 1, AUSTRAC’s virtual-asset transfer rules change what exchanges ask before crypto moves.
