OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Ramp opens stablecoin accounts to all customers on…
Ramp made stablecoin accounts generally available to all customers on July 21, 2026, letting businesses hold stablecoin balances, earn rewards, pay vendors in USDC or USDT, and reconcile it all inside their existing accounting stack.…
AFX Trade loses $24m USDC after five validator…
AFX Trade lost roughly $24.15 million in USD Coin (USDC) on July 22, 2026 after an attacker obtained the validator signing keys controlling the perpetuals exchange's cross-chain bridge. No contract was exploited. Five separate validator…
Marex clears first USDC-margined US derivatives trade
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) no-action letter that made this week's first USDC-margined clearing trade possible also covers Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The first live transaction used none of them — it used…
Visa launches stablecoin platform for 15,000 banks, fintechs
Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) on July 16, 2026, giving its network of roughly 15,000 financial institutions a single system to mint, redeem, custody and settle stablecoins — and the launch math explains…
US stablecoin yield ban pushes idle USDC into…
The US ban on stablecoin yield was supposed to end the practice of paying holders to sit in dollar tokens. Instead, it is relocating that yield rather than killing it. As the GENIUS Act's stablecoin…
Coinbase’s 3.5% USDC reward survives the July 18…
The US stablecoin yield ban takes full effect on July 18, 2026, and the largest yield payment in the market will survive it untouched. Coinbase pays holders of USD Coin (USDC) 3.5% annual percentage yield…
Visa, Stripe and Coinbase back Open USD to…
A consortium of more than 140 businesses — including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, American Express, BlackRock, BNY, Google, Shopify and, pointedly, Coinbase — has launched Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin built to share reserve earnings with…
MoneyGram joins Mastercard, Western Union as Solana validators
The payments incumbents that spent a decade treating public blockchains as a threat are now lining up to secure them. MoneyGram became an active validator on the Solana network on June 22, 2026, joining card…