Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the team at Merkle, join stablecoin startup Tempo, weeks after Merkle sold Farcaster to Neynar
Quick Take — Romero and Srinivasan's move follows Farcaster's sale to Neynar and the founders' exit from day-to-day leadership of the protocol.
Artemis Analytics: total stablecoin transaction volumes rose 72% YoY to a record $33T in 2025, led by Circle's USDC at $18.3T and Tether's USDT at $13.3T
Stablecoin transactions reached unprecedented heights last year, buoyed by favorable policy in the US under pro-crypto President Donald Trump.
Stablecoin operator Ripple raised $500M from Citadel, Fortress, and others at a $40B valuation and says payments made on its platform passed $95B so far in 2025
$500mn investment round underlines appetite for stablecoin payments sector — Ripple has raised $500mn from investors including …
Stablecoin startup ZAR raised $12.9M led by a16z to test USD-backed coins for Pakistan, which the World Bank estimates has the third-largest unbanked population
Andreessen Horowitz is leading funding for a year-old startup that seeks to popularize the use of stablecoins through neighborhood stores …
Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, with BitGo as custodian; its launch date is TBA
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial will issue stablecoin David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times : Trump's Crypto Venture Introduces New Digital Currency Jason Shubnell / The Block : World Liberty Fina...
Stablecoin provider Tether announces a synthetic dollar backed by gold that will trade as aUSDT via smart contracts on the Ethereum Mainnet blockchain
- Alloy by Tether designed to track dollar with gold collateral — Tether Gold has a $573 million market capitalization
Ripple plans to launch a stablecoin later in 2024 that is “100% backed by US dollar deposits, short-term US government Treasuries, and other cash equivalents”
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Tether freezes FTX's $46M in USDT on the Tron blockchain at the request of law enforcement while investigations occur
The stablecoin lost its $1 peg earlier on Thursday. — Stablecoin issuer Tether has frozen $46 million of USDT held on the Tron blockchain by failing crypto exchange FTX following a request from law ...
Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky says Tether has issued USDT in return for cryptocurrencies, calling into question Tether's claim that it only accepts USD
Stablecoin operator accepts crypto in return for some loans, big customer says — A major customer of Tether has said the company lends …
New York regulators have authorized a subsidiary of Japan's GMO Internet to issue the world's first publicly available stablecoin backed by the Japanese yen
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