Stablecoins News

USDH, developed by Native Markets, is the first dollar-pegged token to make it through Hyperliquid’s validator-driven selection process.

Other participants in the round included Sony Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, and VC firm Hashed.

CEO Paolo Ardoino confirmed on X that the fundraising targets “high-profile investors to scale the company’s strategy across stablecoins, AI, commodities, energy, communications, and media.”

Bitcoin prices were down 0.2% at $112,707, Ethereum was down 0.7% at $4,175.78, and XRP fell 0.8% to $2.85, according to Coingecko data.

Officials said the taskforce aims to align regulations while digital asset rules are still developing.

The code update flagged by crypto researcher Ericonomic on X, comes on the heels of ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin reportedly stating that MetaMask would be issuing its own MASK token soon.

Bo Hines, the newly appointed CEO of Tether U.S., previously led the Presidential Council of Advisors for Digital Assets under the Trump administration.

The exchange said individual subscriptions will be capped at 10,000 USDT per user, down from earlier thresholds.

The token will be issued by Bridge, a Stripe-owned stablecoin platform, and minted through M0’s decentralized infrastructure.

According to a report by Reuters, China’s cabinet is expected to review and potentially approve a roadmap later this month aimed at promoting wider use of the yuan internationally.

Bernstein said it expects the Trump administration’s push to establish the U.S. as the “crypto capital of the world” to drive a prolonged bull market in digital assets.

Ripple said the acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Paul Atkins said the new project is aimed at modernizing securities rules and regulations to enable the U.S. financial markets to move on-chain.

CoinRoutes clients can now push orders straight into Uniswap liquidity without leaving their normal trading workflow.

Blockchain data from Glassnode showed that on-chain value transferred using USDT dropped 20% in the last 24 hours, while USDC’s jumped by nearly 40%.

The vote on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins bill, also known as the GENIUS Act, passed by a narrow margin of 215 to 211.

The GENIUS Act is good news for Ethereum because it is likely to ban competing yield-bearing stablecoins that often offer higher and simpler returns.

Researchers outlined new reward mechanics and stablecoin frameworks that will decide Cardano’s economic future.

Ripple said the Bank of New York Mellon will not only serve as the primary custodian for its stablecoin, RLUSD, but will also provide transaction banking services to support its operations.

Ripple’s comes after the GENIUS Act cleared the Senate and is now under consideration by the House of Representatives. The act would require crypto firms issuing stablecoins to obtain bank charters.

With other crypto bets heating up, the Stocktwits community is making a bet that Webull ($BULL) will play catch-up.

Coinbase’s rally was further fueled by the launch of Coinbase Payments, a new platform designed to simplify stablecoin transactions for merchants.

Pera and Immersve debuted a non custodial Mastercard that spends USDC directly on Algorand in five regions.

Alchemy Pay will let users in 173 countries buy Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin with more than 300 local payment options.

PayPal wants to mint PYUSD on Stellar to slash remittance costs and unlock new PayFi lending products, pending regulator approval.

The stablecoin issuer has increased its IPO to 32 million shares at $27 to $28 apiece, up from 24 million shares priced between $24 and $26.

Banks are reportedly hedging against the possibility that stablecoins could become widely adopted under President Trump, who dubbed himself the ‘Crypto President’.

The proposed merger with Twenty One Capital positions Cantor as a potential institutional gateway to Bitcoin exposure, with the combined entity to be majority-owned by Tether and backed by Bitfinex and SoftBank.

Its first effort, a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in 2021, was abandoned due to regulatory hurdles in late 2022.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino blamed the delay on the Biden-era crackdown on cryptocurrencies, stating that a full audit is now the company’s “top priority.”

The spike in volume follows Binance’s decision to delist Tether’s stablecoin USDT from its centralized exchange and an uptick in meme coin trading on the Binance Smart Chain.

According to Bloomberg, Ethena raised $100 million in December to launch an institutional-focused token, attracting investment from Franklin Templeton and F-Prime Capital.