Tether CEO: Dollar Demand is Wages Story – $7M Pact Labs Investment

Tether's Payroll Push: Stablecoins Go After Paychecks Tether wants stablecoins to leave the trading screen and show up in U.S. payroll. That is the part worth watching. My take: the $11 trillion U.S. payroll market is the real prize here, not another burst of exchange vo ...

Bitcoin’s Correlation with U.S. Stocks Has Declined: What’s Next?

Bitcoin Decoupling: Glassnode Sees Spot Demand as Key to $69,000 Breakout "Bitcoin's correlation with U.S. stocks has declined, indicating a potential shift in its market dynamics," according to Glassnode. Translation: Bitcoin is not hugging equities the way it was. Its ...

Hoskinson: RealFi to Drive Cardano TVL & Transactions

Hoskinson: Cardano's RealFi Could Lift TVL and Transaction Growth Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says RealFi could give Cardano's DeFi market a needed push, bringing in more total value locked, or TVL, plus more on-chain transactions. ...

Crypto Firms Face AML Risks Post-MiCA, Warns AMLA Chair

AMLA chair warns of AML risks after MiCA, putting pressure on EU crypto firms The period after MiCA's transition deadline is adding anti money laundering (AML) pressure for crypto firms in the European Union, according to the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the ...

Jesse Pollak Steps Back from Base App Leadership After Crypto Social Strategy Failed

Coinbase's Jesse Pollak shifts Base focus after social crypto bet falls flat Jesse Pollak, who built Coinbase's Base, is stepping back from the Base app after admitting the crypto social push did not work. My take: this is not a gentle product tune-up. Base spent two years chasing onchai ...

Mizuho Downgrades Circle: $50 Target on Open USD Threat

Mizuho Downgrades Circle as OpenUSD Puts Pressure on USDC Mizuho downgraded Circle to "underperform" and cut its price target from $85 to $50. The issue is not vague "competition." It is OpenUSD's business model, which could put more pressure on Circle's profits than investors expected. ...

Circle Stock Tumbles: US Banks Challenge CLARITY Act Loophole

Circle stock falls as US banks push back on CLARITY Act loophole Circle Internet Group shares fell more than 2% in premarket trading today after US banking groups asked the Senate to tighten the stablecoin language in the CLARITY Act. My read: this is not just another crypto lobbying fla ...

Clarity Act: Not a Sanctions Evasion Ticket, Actually!

Clarity Act: Sanctions Evasion Shield or Crypto Regulatory Catalyst? Senator Elizabeth Warren called the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act a "ticket to sanctions evasion" in a recent X post. Sharp line. It worked because it turned a dense market structure bill into something easier to arg ...

Ansem Coin 166K% Surge: MemeToro AI Presale Next?

Ansem Coin 166K% Surge: Can MemeToro AI Agent Presale Deliver Similar Gains in 2026? The crypto market just got another ridiculous memecoin run. Ansem Coin jumped 166,000% in a week. Absurd number. It is also exactly the kind of number that makes people suddenly talk like they spotted th ...

Binance Bets on Crypto ‘Super App’ as Stablecoins Reshape Growth

Binance's super app ambition: stablecoins reshape growth, challenge Coinbase Binance does not want to be only a crypto trading venue. That part is obvious now. It is pushing deeper into payments and financial services because stablecoins are one of the rare crypto products people actuall ...