How to Review Your Stablecoin Setup
Issuers drop chains, exchanges delist tokens, and reserve profiles change. Seven checks for anyone who chose a stablecoin setup months ago and has not revisited it.
Issuers drop chains, exchanges delist tokens, and reserve profiles change. Seven checks for anyone who chose a stablecoin setup months ago and has not revisited it.
Inside a working domestic instant payment system, a stablecoin is usually the worst option. Six situations where the answer is a different rail, and why.
MiCA does two things as a stablecoin grows: it escalates supervision, and for non-euro tokens used in payments it imposes a ceiling. What crossing each means.
MiCA requires euro stablecoin reserves to sit largely in EU bank deposits, not government debt. That is the opposite of the US model, and it moves the risk.
Revolut launched a euro stablecoin it does not issue, in three countries, five days before it removes USDT from Europe. What the structure actually says.
Proposed US rules apply identity checks to issuers, not transfers. Regulators estimate 99% of activity sits outside that perimeter. What the boundary actually covers.
Best gold-backed stablecoins in 2026: PAXG, XAUt, VNXAU, KAU, AWG. Compare backing, redemption, custody, and real liquidity.