Blockchain
TRON's $2.21 Trillion Is a Quarter. $30 Trillion Is Not.
TRON DAO's Q3 release puts stablecoin settlement at $2.21 trillion and cumulative volume past $30 trillion. The $94 billion line is a different cut.
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Abracadabra Wants to Shut MIM. The Bid Is 4 Cents.
An Oct. 3 report says Abracadabra's shutdown proposal puts MIM backing under 4 cents, with about $21 million in bad debt and two wallets on the Snapshot.
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Lloyds Settled $750,000 in USDC. Visa's Chain Has No Name.
Lloyds and Visa finished a seven-day USDC pilot on Sept. 30. Jersey booked $750,000, funds arrived in under an hour, and Visa's public chain is still unnamed.
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RealFi's October 1 Launch Has Two Collateral Stories
RealFi reaches Cardano mainnet on Oct. 1 with USDr and sUSDr. July's yield list and later Treasury wording do not match, and Fireblocks timing does not either.
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PayPal's PYUSDx Is Live. Other Companies Mint on PYUSD Now
PayPal, M0, and MoonPay took PYUSDx live. Saturn, Concrete, and Cap have already processed over $100 million. This is issuance infrastructure, not a new consumer coin.
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Visa Wants Settlement Data to Underwrite Stablecoin Cards
Visa is feeding VisaNet history into onchain lenders so stablecoin card programs can borrow working capital. $20 billion annualized settlement. Credit Coop already did $2.5 billion. This is credit, not a coin drop.
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U.S. Bank Moved Real Money on Stellar. The Coin Is Called USBDC
On 9 September the bank said a live USBDC pilot sent a cross-border payment between its own North American and European entities. Mint, redeem, freeze, clawback. Public chain, bank controls. Not a retail app.
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21 Banks Want Their Own Dollar Stablecoin by Mid-2027
Goldman, BofA, Citi and 18 other institutions committed to a joint dollar stablecoin on public chains, targeting the first half of 2027. Tokenized deposits are no longer the whole plan.
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The GENIUS Act Is Law. The Stablecoin Market Isn't Waiting for It to Work.
The US GENIUS Act is enacted but not yet effective. MiCA is live in the EU. The global stablecoin regulatory map is fracturing along exactly the lines that matter most.
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Cyclops Lands $20M as Stablecoin Payments Infrastructure Heats Up — And Washington Finally Moves
The stablecoin payments startup's Series A signals growing institutional confidence in crypto rails, while the Clarity Act inches toward a Senate vote with Trump's ethics provision approval.
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Visa and Mastercard Just Teamed Up on a Stablecoin — Here's Why That Changes Everything
A consortium including Visa, Mastercard, and major banks launched a global stablecoin initiative, marking the moment when the payment card networks officially embraced blockchain-based settlement as core infrastructure.