The latest stablecoin news from around the world.
Tether and the Government of Georgia announce GEL₮, a Georgian Lari stablecoin, making Georgia one of the first nations to put its currency on blockchain rails.
IHC executes a $30M DDSC dirham stablecoin transaction on ADI Chain, the largest disclosed institutional stablecoin transfer in UAE history.
Senator Elizabeth Warren questions the OCC over crypto bank charter approvals, raising concerns with direct implications for stablecoin regulation in 2026.
Coinbase and Flipcash launch USDF, a new Solana stablecoin backed 1:1 by USDC, as the first live partner on Coinbase's Custom Stablecoin platform.
Checker raises $8M in pre-seed and seed funding led by Galaxy Ventures to build institutional stablecoin infrastructure tools for enterprise adoption.
The Bank of England is weighing alternatives to strict stablecoin holding limits after industry pushback, with draft UK rules due next month.
Standard Chartered acquires Zodia Custody's regulated business, integrating it into its investment bank while spinning out Zodia Solutions as a standalone platform.
Oobit launches Oobit Business, a stablecoin-powered corporate finance stack with card issuing, global payroll, vendor payments, and 24-hour onboarding.
A GENIUS Act loophole lets stablecoin platforms offer deposit-like rewards, threatening to pull trillions from community banks and cut local lending capacity.
Fasset raises $51M Series B to expand stablecoin banking across 50 plus corridors in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, serving 2M wallets and 1,000 SME clients.
Coinbase becomes official USDC treasury deployer on Hyperliquid under the Aligned Quote Asset framework, deepening stablecoin integration on the DeFi trading platform.
Societe Generale joins Canton Network as Super Validator and deploys EUR and USD CoinVertible stablecoins for institutional collateral, repo, and digital settlement.
Stablecoins have passed ACH in transaction volume, but the real challenge is off-chain liquidity in real-world corridors where fiat conversion still breaks the chain
Circle launches Agent Stack (agent wallets, a service marketplace, and sub-cent USDC rails) to become the core payment layer of the AI agent economy.
Circle raises $222M in ARC token presale at $3B valuation led by a16z, BlackRock, and Apollo as it builds Arc, a blockchain for institutional finance.
BlackRock files for two tokenized money market funds targeting stablecoin issuers, adding on-chain Treasury shares to its $7B Select Treasury fund and a new reserve vehicle.
