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The institutional moves, policy shifts and market signals worth your attention.
- #198198: Who gets the stablecoin interest?
- CEO NoteOpenUSD goes live and hands the interest to its partners
- Monday BriefingMonday: Citi's stablecoin checkout with Coinbase
- CEO NoteSEC staff clear token buybacks and let each issuer set its own exit test
- #197197: SoFi targets $25B in card settlement
- CEO NoteCanada's big six banks are building a digital dollar that stablecoins legally can't match
- InsightsECB launches tokenized trades in central bank money
- #196196: Congress said no. The SEC yes.
- CEO NoteThe SEC Took the Pen
- CEO NoteWho won the Clarity fight
- Monday BriefingWho wins the clarity deal?
- CEO NoteClarity’s three IOUs
- #195195: Nasdaq’s $100M Kraken bet
- CEO NoteCircle Buys Tazapay: $400M for Fees, Not Float
- CEO NoteRobinhood built a bigger business that makes less money
- CEO Note21 globally systemic banks to launch stablecoin
- CEO NoteJapan Puts Its Settlement Layer on a Chain
- CEO NoteA Wyoming Bank Beat JPMorgan Out the Door
- CEO NoteCloudflare gives AI agents a corporate card
- #190190: Western Union ships a stablecoin card
- CEO NoteCircle Built a $73 Billion Dollar and Keeps a Quarter of a Cent
- CEO NoteTether’s gold pile grows while its safety buffer shrinks
- CEO NoteTen European banks launch joint blockchain
- ReportThe tokenized private credit opportunity
- CEO Noteone clause decides crypto's decade
- CEO NoteDTCC traded tokenized stocks in production
- EssayThe Fat Protocol Thesis Is Dead
- CEO NoteSwift Goes On-Chain: 17 Banks Pilot 24/7 Tokenized Payments
- CEO Notetokenized stocks' first $3B month
- CEO NoteRobinhood just rented a bank
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