Stablecoins & Payments

Samsung Wallet will support USDC transfers on Solana for US Galaxy users from late October, with Coinbase custody; Moody’s has assigned Sky Protocol, issuer of USDS, a B3 rating, its first for a stablecoin protocol. What each step confirms, and what a speculative-grade rating does and does not say.

On 6 October 2026 Paxos-issued Global Dollar (USDG) went live natively on Arbitrum One with Fluid, Morpho, GMX, Maple, Uniswap and Kraken among first integrations. A DAO proposal to add 100M ARB to DRIP is a proposal, not yet approved.

Circle published its MiCA review consultation response on 1 Oct 2026. It is company advocacy; rankings and “largest” claims are Circle’s own statements.

512,000 Lines of Code. One Accidental Leak. A Payment Protocol Nobody Expected.On March 31, 2026, a routine npm package update from Anthropic did something catastrophic: it shipped...

The $1.9 Trillion Question: Can Traditional Finance Survive the AI Agent Economy?Stripe just declared war on the payments status quo. And this time, the battlefield isn't human...

USDC vs USDT: The Stablecoin Wars Heat Up in 2026 The battle for stablecoin dominance has reached a tipping point. For the first time since 2019, USD Coin...

EURS, the longest-running euro stablecoin, just plunged nearly 25% under its peg. We break down what broke, how to read the on-chain data, and what regulators will do next.

The numbers are in: Paxos just processed over $1.3 billion in stablecoin payments on Polygon. The total gas cost? Less than $700.That's a 99.998% cost reduction compared...

In a move that sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency market, Circle, the company behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, has announced that it will cover any shortfall...