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Here's something wild: while Bitcoin dropped 50% from its October peak and ended 2025 down 6%, stablecoins just kept growing. Stripe's Bridge platform saw transaction volume more than quadruple in 2025. And get this — stablecoin fee volume doubled to around $400 billion, with roughly 60% coming from business-to-busines...
Ripple has entered a critical regulatory sandbox in Singapore, positioning its stablecoin RLUSD and the XRP Ledger (XRPL) at the heart of a state-backed test for the future of cross-border trade. The company, alongside partner Unloq, is now part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) BLOOM initiative. This move...
A quiet but significant shift in global trade finance is unfolding at one of the world's most critical maritime chokepoints. Shares of Chinese cross-border payment firms surged after the country's commerce ministry revealed that the yuan is now being used to pay transit tolls for ships passing through the Strait of Hor...
The U.S. Treasury and IRS have formally proposed regulations for a new 1% excise tax on certain cash-based money transfers sent abroad, a move set to directly impact millions of individuals and the remittance industry. The tax, established under the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," is slated to take effect on January 1, 2...
Kraken's parent company has agreed to acquire the Asian financial technology firm Reap for $600 million, marking the cryptocurrency exchange's largest acquisition to date as it accelerates its push into cross-border payment markets across Asia. The deal signals a strategic pivot toward stablecoin infrastructure as a ve...