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Visa just launched stablecoin settlement in the US using Circle’s dollar-pegged digital asset USDC. The move allows US issuer and acquirer partners to settle transactions on the blockchain, starting with the Solana network. The move marks a key step in Visa’s pilot program to integrate stablecoins into global commerce. Visa’s U.S. stablecoin settlement framework is designed to power seven day...
The leading stablecoin company Tether is investing $8 million in Speed, a payments infrastructure firm. The funding round, led by Tether with participation from Ego Death Capital, aims to advance stablecoin payments on Lightning – a network built on top of Bitcoin to power instant and cheap transactions. The goal is to enable efficient payments with native Bitcoin and Tether’s USDT stablecoin....
December 15, 2025 – Fernandina Beach, Florida SaucerSwap Labs, the team behind Hedera’s leading DEX (decentralized exchange), today unveiled a fully redesigned platform and refreshed brand identity. The update delivers modernized navigation, integrated analytics and a new visual design system while preserving the audited smart contracts and non-custodial architecture that users rely on. Peter...
An elderly woman has lost $12,000 after a fraudster pretending to work at JPMorgan Chase duped her into thinking her account was in trouble. The 78-year-old victim says she received a call from a person claiming to be a representative of the banking giant’s fraud department, reports the local outlet Cleveland.com. The victim says the caller warned her that someone was attempting to withdraw $9,...
One of the most downloaded crypto wallets is announcing support for the flagship crypto. MetaMask says it has added native support for Bitcoin (BTC), allowing users to trade, send and manage the asset alongside Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL) and Sei (SEI) within a single wallet, expanding its multichain offerings. Users who update to the latest version of MetaMask will automatically receive a BTC...
A widely followed crypto analyst and trader says that gold is currently overvalued against digital gold, Bitcoin (BTC). Crypto analyst Michaël Van De Poppe tells his 816,200 X followers that the Relative Strength Index (RSI), a momentum indicator that shows whether a crypto asset is overbought or oversold by measuring the speed and magnitude of recent price changes, indicates BTC is worth more...
The SEC is hosting a task force roundtable on the future of crypto privacy, organized by pro-crypto Commissioner Hester Pierce. In his opening remarks, Chairman Paul Atkins said the agency is pondering how to empower groundbreaking privacy protocols while addressing “national security threats.” “Today’s roundtable participants will wrestle with a question that, at its core, is profoundly...
The SEC is hosting a task force roundtable on the future of crypto privacy, organized by pro-crypto Commissioner Hester Pierce. In his opening remarks, Chairman Paul Atkins said the agency is pondering how to empower groundbreaking privacy protocols while addressing “national security threats.” “Today’s roundtable participants will wrestle with a question that, at its core, is profoundly...
CME Group just launched spot-quoted XRP and Solana (SOL) futures, expanding its crypto offerings. The Chicago-based derivatives marketplace says it introduced the new contracts to meet growing demand from traders. The new futures are listed on CME and CBOT, complementing existing spot-quoted Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) products. Investors can now hold positions in spot-market terms with...
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee believes basic market dynamics favor crypto bullishness despite recent price woes. In a new interview with CNBC, Lee predicts that crypto’s “best years are still definitely ahead.” “Today, there are only four million Bitcoin wallets with $10,000 in them. There are 900 million IRA and brokerage accounts globally that have $10,000, so that’s 200 times larger a market.”  Lee...