Solana now leads all chains in monthly USDC senders, a shift regulators tracking stablecoin payment rails will need to weigh.
By Oliver Bennett — August 10, 2026US, UK and EU regulators are finalising rules to trace, freeze and in some cases redirect cross-border stablecoin transfers.
By Oliver Bennett — August 8, 2026Circle's Layer-1 network goes live on 16 September with BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Visa and Mastercard as founding validators.
By Oliver Bennett — August 5, 2026Europe's stablecoin licensing regime is steering exchange liquidity from USDT to MiCA-compliant tokens such as USDC and EURC.
By Oliver Bennett — July 31, 2026Brale has launched ION Protocol, a burn-and-mint system for moving stablecoins across chains, echoing Circle's established CCTP model.
By Rajesh Patel — July 29, 2026Circle's USDC reserves reached $73.1bn on 23 July, mostly parked in a BlackRock-run fund of cash, T-bills and overnight repo.
By Oliver Bennett — July 28, 2026Circle's regulatory breakthrough with the OCC collides with a 140-lender stablecoin launch, leaving CRCL shares swinging sharply.
By Rajesh Patel — July 27, 2026Solana's card-based stablecoin payments hit $94m as speculative trading cools, even as US spot ETFs see net outflows.
By Rajesh Patel — July 25, 2026Coinbase now lets Brazilians swap reais directly for USDC, sharpening competition with Binance and the central bank's digital currency plan.
By Oliver Bennett — July 24, 2026Tiger Research says Tether and Circle dominate issuance, but the real growth and revenue now sit in payments, compliance and on-ramp infrastructure.
By Freya Macdonald — July 23, 2026
