Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has unveiled cirBTC, a new Bitcoin-backed token designed to bring the world’s largest digital asset into decentralized finance applications – including lending, borrowing, and liquidity protocols – by addressing the trust deficit that has constrained co...

Total stablecoin supply rose approximately $8 billion to a record $315 billion in the first quarter of 2026, even as broader crypto markets contracted, according to data published by CEX.IO – with Circle’s USDC expanding its market share while Tether’s USDT posted its first quarterly supply decline since Q2 2022.

The divergence between the two dominant issuers marked o...

Nishad Singh, the former Director of Engineering at FTX crypto and FTX US, has been ordered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to pay $3.7 million in disgorgement under a supplemental consent order finalized on April 1, 2026 – resolving the agency’s civil enforcement action stemming from his role in the $8 billion-plus customer fund misappropriation that preci...

Iran has established what amounts to a formalized toll system at the Strait of Hormuz, accepting Chinese yuan and crypto – specifically stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies – as payment for naval escort through the waterway, according to a Bloomberg report published April 1.

The system, administered through an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked intermediary, ass...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on April 1, 2026, formally soliciting public comment on the requirements that state-level stablecoin regulatory regimes must satisfy under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act – commonly known as the GENIUS Act – which President Donald Trump signed into law i...