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VersaBank — by its own description the world’s first fully digital bank — just launched a US pilot program tokenizing US dollar bank deposits on Algorand, Ethereum, and Stellar. Confirmed by SEC filing. This is a different category of token from stablecoins: actual bank deposits, FDIC-eligible, interest-bearing. And Algorand was one of three chains chosen.
Australia’s Reserve Bank just published the final Project Acacia report — and one of the seven pilots ran an end-to-end Australian Government bond lifecycle on the XRP Ledger with settlement in RLUSD, Ripple’s stablecoin. Custody via JPMorgan. Ripple Labs, Chainlink, and Fireblocks all on the same use case.
Bermuda becomes the world’s first fully on-chain economy by integrating its banking and government services onto the Stellar blockchain — a milestone for crypto-native nations.
The GENIUS Act has officially passed the U.S. Senate with a 68–30 vote, advancing the landmark legislation to the House…
Paypal has partnered with Coinbase and rolled out a new PAYUSD reward system as part of their new collaboration. The…
Mastercard has announced plans to make stablecoin payments globally accepted, whereby users can pay in stablecoins from web3 wallets, and…
Russia could create its own national stablecoin as recent sanctions against the nation, including wallet freezes on Russia’s Garantex exchange,…
Revolutionary partnerships between blockchain pioneers and conventional financial players are reshaping the world economy. Central to this transformation is the…
Ripple USD, or, RLUSD, is now live on Kraken exchange as Ripple payments integrate the stablecoin into their cross-border payments…