Tether's Q3 2026 attestation puts excess reserves at $7.95 billion, up $3.85 billion in a quarter. Stablecoin Insider reads the BDO report line by line: what bitcoin and gold did, why the cash-like share fell, what BDO did not check, and how much of a drawdown the buffer can absorb.
OnePay now lets select U.S. customers send USDC from 12 blockchains and get dollars in OnePay Checking, with Stripe's Bridge doing the conversion. Stablecoin Insider reads the customer agreement: the own-wallet rule, the Early Deposit credit, reversals and where FDIC cover starts.
SoFi CEO Anthony Noto calls blockchain a technology super cycle and has put a national bank behind SoFiUSD, now settling SoFi's $25 billion card program on Mastercard. His career timeline, a scorecard of his stablecoin promises and what to watch next.
Six platforms compared on where the number comes from and whether you can audit it. Filtering, published methodology, delivery and the sources that share one dataset.
The Binance hack took about $6.36 billion, and stablecoin issuers froze roughly $2.7 billion within hours. Stablecoin Insider compares what Tether, Circle, Ripple and World Liberty said they froze with what is confirmed on-chain, and explains how freeze, burn and reissue recovery works.
XDC AI, the marketplace behind XDC Network's Unsupervised build day at Hub71, lets AI agents pay per call in USDC with gas sponsored. Stablecoin Insider breaks down the x402 flow, the on-chain spending cap, the custody fine print and what the live catalog says about real usage.
Pavel Kashuba, Strategic Leader at Coinspaid Solutions, used his main-stage address at Stablecon USA 2026 in Washington, D.C., to examine the operational work required to make crypto a routinely used payment method. His session, “Four in Ten American Businesses Take Crypto. Most of Their Customers Never Notice,” placed
Link balance, launched 26 October 2026 with Instinct, lets an AI agent spend a USDC balance on Tempo without asking for approval on every purchase. Stablecoin Insider walks through the limits, the custody split between Bridge and Privy, a worked weekly budget and the gaps buyers should know about.
Six options compared on how the renewal is authorised and what happens when it fails. Native onchain allowances, streaming and hosted billing, with the 2026 changes.
Movantis, which moves over US$60 billion a year across the Americas, will settle US to El Salvador transfers in USDC on Stellar. Stablecoin Insider separates what was announced from what was not, models the prefunding a 24/7 leg could free, and flags the 1% cash remittance tax it leaves untouched.
Circle and ACI Worldwide, the company behind Colombia's Bre-B core, plan a USDC settlement pilot through ACI Connetic. Stablecoin Insider separates what was announced from what was not, maps the three rails now inside Connetic and models where a 24/7 dollar leg could free bank liquidity.
Learn how stablecoin yield works after the OCC's GENIUS Act final rule, which routes survive, and what changes in January 2027.
Chiara Munaretto, Co-Founder of Stablecoin Insider, is leaving the publication, effective 15 November 2026.
Six providers compared on the guarantees that decide whether a payment is ever recorded. Delivery semantics, reorg handling, ordering, replay and confirmation models.
Six providers compared on published markups and what those percentages are actually charged on. Chains, ERC-20 gas support, policy controls and funding models.
Ripple and Robinhood announced a Robinhood RLUSD partnership on 27 October 2026: XRPL settlement at Bitstamp, Ripple Treasury for Robinhood's own cash, and an app listing later this year. Stablecoin Insider checks every figure and asks what it means next to USDG, which Robinhood also backs.
