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A stablecoin attestation confirms one claim on one date: that reserve assets equaled or exceeded tokens in circulation. Here is how to extract the five lines that matter from the PDF, and what the report cannot tell you.
An agent wallet is a prepaid USDC budget, not a treasury. After it starts paying x402 APIs, you still have to match each spend to a service, a cost center, and a human principal. This 2026 guide shows how to reconcile batched nanopayments when one on-chain hash is not one purchase.
OSL said Ceffu now holds USDGO as a custody asset, so eligible institutions can deposit, hold, and withdraw the Anchorage-issued dollar stablecoin under an independent custodian. Circulation is about $1.2 billion since the February 2026 launch.
An AI agent cannot spend USDC until it has a policy-controlled wallet, a budget, and a human principal attached. This 2026 guide shows how to create that wallet, fund it, set spend limits, and let the agent pay x402 services without holding an unconstrained private key.
Put USDC on the invoice: quote in dollars, collect on a named chain, match the hash to AR, then off-ramp only if bank cash is required.
Visa is running an RFP for a new settlement and OTC partner after Mastercard acquired BVNK. Documents seen by CoinDesk say the replacement must hold exchange licenses in the US, Canada, the UK, and Singapore, and settle Open USD.
No. The GENIUS Act bans deposit insurance for payment stablecoins, and the FDIC has confirmed holders do not get pass-through coverage either. What you have instead is a first-priority claim on segregated reserves, which is a legal process, not a government guarantee.
USDT is larger and more liquid. USDC is narrower in reserves and tighter on disclosure. Here is how the two dollars actually differ in 2026.
Redeem USDT or USDC for dollars: Tether min $100,000 and fee rules vs Circle Mint redemption; issuer cash-out vs venue off-ramp.
The league table measures parked money. Here's what happens when you measure moving money instead.
Crypto security is no longer a subject reserved for protocol engineers and security researchers. As wallets, exchanges, bridges, smart contracts and mobile applications reach a broader audience, the consequences of a security failure increasingly fall on ordinary users. That changes the nature of the problem. A smart contract bug may
In July, we sat down with five founders working on the pieces that make that possible: programmability, transaction velocity, and confidential settlement.
Stablecoin platform KAST appoints Connor Fitzgerald as U.S. General Manager, following a $80M Series A, 1M+ users and $5B in annualized transaction volume.
In 2019, Meta tried to build its own global currency. Regulators killed it within a year. In 2026, Meta is trying stablecoins again, but this time it wants nothing to do with issuing one.
Market cap just posted its biggest monthly drop since Terra. Transaction volume hit $1.79T. The explanation changes how you should think about stablecoins.
