Crypto Lender Maple Finance Opens Cash Management Pool for U.S Investors

Demand for blockchain-based T-bill offerings has been steadily rising as the yield on U.S. government debt, widely considered as risk-free, surpassed yields in decentralized finance (DeFi). Digital asset firms, crypto investment funds and protocol treasuries often hold substantial amount of cash in stablecoins. Tokenized Treasuries offer them a shield from inflation and a way to […]

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Circle’s Allaire Sees Stablecoins as Best Option for Yuan Internationalization

Although Allaire views stablecoins as a superior option to CBDCs, he said the two are complimentary. “If central banks are going to upgrade their own systems to move away from legacy technology into more modern distributed ledger technology, that’s great,” he told SCMP. “There’s a whole bunch of things that are useful from that, but […]

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What’s in the House Financial Services Committee’s Stablecoin Bill?

Another section calls for a study on “the potential impact” of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), or digital dollar, on the Fed’s monetary policy tools, U.S. financial sector, banking sector and financial stability, as well as to payment services. The Treasury Department, alongside the various regulators, would have to report to the Financial Services […]

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Stablecoin Issuer Tether Used Bank Accounts Opened With Falsified Documents in Past: WSJ

According to the Journal’s report, Tether Holdings co-owner Stephen Moore pushed back against the use of fake sales invoices, saying “I would not want to argue any of the above in a potential fraud/money laundering case” in an email seen by the Journal, referring to an intermediary which traded USDT in China.

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Falling Stablecoin Issuance Is Negative Sign for Crypto Trading

“Rising market prices enticed traders to take on more leverage, in the form of borrowing stablecoins, which was then used to buy more crypto,” analysts Sheena Shah and Kinji Steimetz wrote. “Falling market prices were catalyzed by a reduction in crypto liquidity caused by traders closing long crypto positions, followed by redemptions of the stablecoin […]

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