Circle’s push to transform USDC into a truly global digital dollar just cleared one of its most important regulatory hurdles yet. On April 29 the company announced an In-Principle Approval from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority inside Abu Dhabi Global Market, putting it on track to become a fully licensed money-services provider in the United […]
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Base, the Ethereum layer-2 chain incubated by Coinbase, has crossed a symbolic but concrete threshold in its march toward trust-minimized scaling. In a blog post on April 29, the team confirmed that live fault-proof circuits and a newly minted, multi-jurisdictional Security Council have propelled the network into what Vitalik Buterin defines as “Stage 1 Decentralization.”
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Donald Trump’s media empire is courting crypto once again, this time with a native utility token designed to power payments inside Truth Social. In letters sent to shareholders late last week, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) outlined a plan to roll out a “Truth digital wallet” that will house the new token and let
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Mastercard has taken its most decisive step yet into digital assets, announcing it will let merchants settle card payments in regulated stablecoins such as Circle’s USDC and Paxos’s USDP. The update, revealed on April 29, positions the 60-year-old network at the heart of a fast-forming bridge between traditional finance and on-chain money. Under the new
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GeeFi’s engineers have spent the past year on a singular mission: erase the friction that still forces everyday users to juggle multiple wallets, centralized exchanges and nerve-racking copy-pastes of long addresses. This week the Singapore-based team flipped the switch on its most ambitious upgrade yet, baking direct swaps and one-click bridging into the GeeFi Wallet.
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The organization that funds and coordinates the second-largest blockchain just rewired its chain of command. In a move designed to sharpen execution and restore the network’s competitive edge, the Ethereum Foundation announced on Apr. 28 that it has split its board of directors from day-to-day management. The board—anchored by co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Foundation president Aya
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Nike’s moon-shot into digital couture is now a legal meteor shower. On Friday, a group of collectors led by Australian investor Jagdeep Cheema filed a class-action complaint in Brooklyn federal court, alleging the sportswear titan vaporized the value of their RTFKT non-fungible tokens when it shuttered the studio in December 2024. They’re demanding upward of
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The champagne corks were barely out of the bottle before Senator Cynthia Lummis poured cold water on the party. On Apr. 24 the U.S. Federal Reserve quietly scrapped its 2022 supervisory letter—the memo that had warned banks off stablecoins and most crypto dealings. Within hours, Bitcoin evangelists cheered the “green light” for traditional finance. Strategy’s
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