A government worried about growing use of dollar stablecoins has an obvious option: offer a digital version of its own currency.

Trump Media is unwinding some of its biggest crypto plans without abandoning digital assets altogether.

Bybit has filed a U.S. civil lawsuit against North Korea, its intelligence service and the Lazarus Group over the $1.5 billion crypto theft.

Hyperliquid’s policy arm is pushing regulators to consider whether perpetual futures, best known for crypto trading, could also work as hedging tools for businesses exposed to commodity prices.

Coinbase now allows UK residents to trade US-listed stocks through a separate Coinbase Capital Markets brokerage account while using the same application as their crypto holdings.

Visa and Mastercard are moving stablecoins deeper into cross-border payments. Visa is focusing on liquidity and wallet payouts; Mastercard is testing a way for providers to reuse parts of the compliance work already completed.

A Banca d’Italia experiment found that sending USDC between Italy and five other countries cost anywhere from 0.30% to 8.96%, depending largely on how users entered and exited the crypto market.

Open USD will launch on Ethereum from its first day of operation as part of a broader multichain rollout that also includes Solana, Base, Stellar and Polygon.

During a July 29 panel discussion on digital assets, Morgan Stanley Global Head of Banks and Diversified Finance Research Betsy Graseck put the case bluntly.

Crypto exchanges have built a parallel market around one of China's largest technology listings before the underlying shares have traded a single lot.

Solana ended the second quarter with two very different stories. Trading in tokenized assets on the network more than doubled to a record $5.8 billion in quarterly volume, but overall decentralized exchange activity, lending and revenue generated from network use all declined.

Chainlink is not offering central banks a new currency or asking governments to replace their sovereign financial systems with a public blockchain. Its institutional role is more practical: coordinating data, payments, tokenized assets, compliance checks and settlement instructions across systems that were not designed to communicate with one another.