MoneyGram launches Visa stablecoin card as remittance rivals expand
MoneyGram is following rival Western Union’s lead, rolling out a Visa stablecoin debit card as it expands blockchainbased payments. Source:Cointelegraph
Monument Bank delays retail tokenized deposits, cites regulatory issues in the UK
The Londonbased challenger bank tapped a Canadian custodian to meet the Financial Conduct Authority’s regulatory requirements. It now expects to roll out…
EU finance groups push to remove tokenized securities cap
European finance and tokenization groups say Brussels should remove limits on assets admitted to DLT infrastructure or set a 1.5 trillion euro baseline if a…
Coinbase, Moov to provide stablecoin infrastructure for US community banks
The partnership will provide stablecoin acceptance, settlement and realtime funding capabilities to over 1,000 community banks and credit unions.…
Hunter Biden's new LAPTOP token lost 98% of its value in under an hour after $1.6 billion debut
LAPTOP swung from $190 to under $4 within minutes of opening on Base. Onchain records show tokens had been distributed to market makers for a week before…
Swiss stablecoin sandbox enters testing phase, adds two new partners
Financial market operator SIX and payment app TWINT have joined numerous banks in the sandbox seeking to develop a Swiss francbased stablecoin.…
Hunter Biden debuts 'LAPTOP' memecoin targeting TRUMP holders
LAPTOP debuts Wednesday on Base, with nearly a third of the supply set to be burned if a slate of political and market outcomes — including a Democratic win in…
Citi, DBS complete first weekend tokenized cross-border deposit on Swift
Citi and DBS completed their first tokenized crossborder transfer over the weekend, using Swift’s blockchainbased ledger to circumvent the constraints of…
U.S. inflation, Coinbase’s Deribit switch: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting Sept. 7. Source:CoinDesk
Better and Coinbase’s bitcoin-backed mortgages can reuse borrowers’ collateral
Better Mortgage can reuse the pledged bitcoin, and borrowers cannot recover their crypto until the main conventional mortgage is fully repaid or refinanced.…
Pineapple Financial puts $1B in mortgage records on Injective
The mortgage lender plans to bring more than $10 billion in historical loans onchain, turning thousands of mortgage files into blockchainbased records.…
FinCEN ties $13B in crypto scams to non-US operations
The agency reported that “transnational criminal organizations” based in compounds in Southeast Asia were largely behind digital asset scams targeting US…