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The banks answered stablecoins four times (opens the original)
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The 39 state bankers associations that formed the BankChain Alliance on Tuesday represent 3,283 banks holding $21.8 trillion. The entire stablecoin market is worth $309.8 billion. So the banks brought roughly seventy times the balance sheet to this fight, and then split it across four separate networks that don’t talk to each other yet. Somewhere, a correspondent banking veteran is laughing.In this week’s brief:US banks announced their answer to stablecoins four separate times this week, and no
Visa's one stablecoin option (opens the original)
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Wyoming beat the federal government to market this week. While Treasury was still writing the rulebook for stablecoins, a state government with fewer people than a mid-size college town launched a live, mainnet, publicly purchasable dollar token, with Kraken and Rain distributing it from day one. Meanwhile Visa found out the hard way that losing a settlement partner narrows your options fast. Bureaucracy: 0. Cowboys: 1.In this week’s brief:Visa’s hunt for a new stablecoin settlement partner turn
Western Union bets against itself (opens the original)
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Western Union has charged people to send money home since 1871. This week it launched a product that makes doing that almost free, and the company built it on purpose. Turns out the 173-year-old middleman finally decided disruption was coming either way, so it might as well hold the knife.In this week’s brief:Western Union’s new Stablecard could erase the fee that funds most of the company, and its own numbers say soMastercard closed a $1.8 billion bet on owning stablecoin rails outright, months
How Tether stayed in Europe without MiCA (opens the original)
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Revolut froze new USDT deposits on July 30, the latest step in cutting off the world’s biggest stablecoin from the world’s largest neobank by August 31. Everyone’s calling it “Tether losing Europe.” Nobody’s asking what Tether built instead, which turns out to be more interesting, and more fragile, than the headline.In this week’s brief:Tether didn’t get MiCA-compliant, it got MiCA-adjacent, and the workaround already got hacked onceKraken’s parent company keeps buying its way into a full-stack
Samsung puts a stablecoin in your pocket (opens the original)
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Samsung shipped 241.2 million Galaxy phones last year, which is more hardware than Coinbase has managed to sign up in verified users across its entire 13-year existence. This week it said a chunk of those phones are about to come with a stablecoin already inside the wallet app, no download required. Crypto spent a decade trying to get people to install something. Samsung just skipped that step entirely.In this week’s brief:Samsung Wallet is adding native stablecoin support, and the demo starred
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