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PayPal is expanding access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and UK to 70 countries in total, including new markets in Uganda, Colombia, Peru and Malawi (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 17, 2026

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Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with plans to onboard a provider to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2026

Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with…

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Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the Merkle team, join stablecoin startup Tempo after Merkle sold Farcaster to Neynar (Kyle Baird/The Block)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 10, 2026

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Binance says it will convert $1 billion of stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November (Danny Park/The Block)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 30, 2026

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The ruble-backed stablecoin A7A5 has surpassed $100 billion in transactions in less than a year, but demand has cooled and daily volume has fallen from a peak of more than $1.5 billion to around $500 million (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 24, 2026

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Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than Solana, the first full U.S. deployment of stablecoin settlement (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 16, 2025

Émilie Mason / Bloomberg: Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than…

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Kyrgyzstan launches national stablecoin and CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ says a national cryptocurrency reserve includes Binance’s BNB token (Aigerim Turgunbaeva/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 25, 2025

Aigerim Turgunbaeva / Reuters: Kyrgyzstan launches national stablecoin and CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ Claims National Cryptocurrency Reserve Includes…

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Stripe Lance Open Issance, a stablecoin emission platform built on Stripe’s Bridge, which allows companies to create their own stablecoins with a minimum coding (Krisztian Sandor / Coindesk)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 30, 2025

Krisztian Sandor / Pear:: Stripe Lance Open Issance, a stablecoin emission platform built on Stripe’s Bridge, which allows companies to…

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Tether names Bo Hines, the former executive director of the White House Crypto Council, as CEO of his new American unit and launches USAT Stablecoin (Daniel Kuhn / The Block)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 12, 2025

Daniel Kuhn / The block:: Tether names Bo Hines, the former executive director of the White House Crypto Council, as…

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Christian Catalini, co-creator of the Meta Stablecoin Balance Project, reflects on the failure of the balance, which the Stripe tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more (Christian Catalini / Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 6, 2025

Christian Catalini / Forbes:: Christian Catalini, co-creator of the Meta Stablecoin Balance Project, reflects on the failure of the balance,…

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Browsing: stablecoin

PayPal is expanding access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and UK to 70 countries in total, including new markets in Uganda, Colombia, Peru and Malawi (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with plans to onboard a provider to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the Merkle team, join stablecoin startup Tempo after Merkle sold Farcaster to Neynar (Kyle Baird/The Block)

Binance says it will convert $1 billion of stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November (Danny Park/The Block)

The ruble-backed stablecoin A7A5 has surpassed $100 billion in transactions in less than a year, but demand has cooled and daily volume has fallen from a peak of more than $1.5 billion to around $500 million (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)

Visa says it will allow U.S. banks to settle transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin rather than Solana, the first full U.S. deployment of stablecoin settlement (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Kyrgyzstan launches national stablecoin and CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ says a national cryptocurrency reserve includes Binance’s BNB token (Aigerim Turgunbaeva/Reuters)

Stripe Lance Open Issance, a stablecoin emission platform built on Stripe’s Bridge, which allows companies to create their own stablecoins with a minimum coding (Krisztian Sandor / Coindesk)

Tether names Bo Hines, the former executive director of the White House Crypto Council, as CEO of his new American unit and launches USAT Stablecoin (Daniel Kuhn / The Block)

Christian Catalini, co-creator of the Meta Stablecoin Balance Project, reflects on the failure of the balance, which the Stripe tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more (Christian Catalini / Forbes)