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briefStablecoins· May 2, 2026, 8:37 PM GMT+2
Visa's stablecoin settlement spans nine chains now. Liquidity is the new moat.
Stablecoin settlement used to be about which issuer you trusted. Visa just made it about which chain has the deepest pool.
139d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
139d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· May 2, 2026, 5:36 PM GMT+2
Exodus Pay goes live all 50 states. The UFC deal is distribution, not marketing.
Self-custody wallets have always had a distribution problem. Exodus thinks a sport with 700 million fans is the fix.
139d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
139d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· May 2, 2026, 1:07 PM GMT+2
Tether reports $1.04B Q1 profit. The Treasury-float moat keeps holding.
The yield-bearing stablecoin threat is real. Tether just showed it has the buffer to outlast the near-term challenge.
140d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
140d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· May 2, 2026, 8:12 AM GMT+2
Exodus Pay goes live in all 50 states as trading revenue craters.
Payments is the right pivot for a wallet company whose trading revenue is compressing. But Exodus's card-infrastructure layer is still in UK receivership, not cleanly in the company's hands.
140d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
140d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· May 1, 2026, 7:06 PM GMT+2
Tether made $1.04 billion in Q1. The Treasury float won't always be this good.
Tether's reserve buffer just hit a record. The number that matters is how much of that evaporates when short-term rates fall.
140d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
140d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· May 1, 2026, 5:37 PM GMT+2
Tether's Q1 profit hit $1.04 billion. The audit still hasn't.
Tether can earn a billion dollars a quarter parking USDT reserves in T-bills. What it still cannot do is hand regulators a completed financial audit.
140d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
140d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· May 1, 2026, 12:35 PM GMT+2
Meta chose USDC for creator payouts. Stablecoins just became back-end infrastructure.
Meta is not building a new token or reviving Libra. It is adopting existing stablecoin rails as payroll infrastructure.
141d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
141d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· May 1, 2026, 11:08 AM GMT+2
Twenty-One Capital is becoming a Bitcoin operating company. Tether wants more than the float.
Proposing to bolt Strike's payments rails and Elektron's mining capacity onto Twenty-One Capital looks less like Bitcoin conviction and more like Tether hedging against the day its stablecoin float math gets harder.
141d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
141d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· May 1, 2026, 12:39 AM GMT+2
Regulated stablecoin issuance just became middleware. Tether's distribution moat is looking thinner.
Any fintech with distribution can now issue a licensed dollar without building a compliance operation. The part of Tether's moat that was hardest to replicate just became a service.
141d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
141d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· Apr 29, 2026, 8:40 PM GMT+2
Stable Sea embeds WisdomTree tokenized treasury in operating cash. The float is the target.
A tokenized money-market fund yielding 3.49% embedded in a business treasury tool isn't a DeFi product anymore. It's a bank deposit substitute.
142d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
142d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· Apr 29, 2026, 7:44 PM GMT+2
Computershare plugs tokenized equity into transfer-agent rails. Wrappers just got complicated.
ISTs sit inside the official shareholder record, not on top of it. That makes every wrapper product on the market look like a workaround.
142d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
142d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· Apr 27, 2026, 12:19 PM GMT+2
Western Union built USDPT to cut its SWIFT bill. The consumer layer comes later.
Western Union is deploying USDPT as settlement infrastructure first, and that framing makes it a more structural threat to incumbent stablecoin economics than any consumer wallet launch.
145d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
145d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· Apr 21, 2026, 8:30 PM GMT+2
USDT just crossed $150B. The slope is the signal, not the level.
Tether has been minting through rallies and selloffs alike since March. The question isn't the $150B milestone: it's whether supply growing through multiple market conditions signals structural demand has arrived.
150d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
150d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno
briefStablecoins· Apr 21, 2026, 3:18 PM GMT+2
Twelve European banks are building the euro stablecoin MiCAR was designed for. USDC should pay attention.
A twelve-bank consortium just turned MiCAR compliance into a product. That's what eats EURC's European share.
151d ago·2min·by Lucia Moreno
151d ago2min readby Lucia Moreno

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Visa's stablecoin settlement spans nine chains now. Liquidity is the new moat.

Exodus Pay goes live all 50 states. The UFC deal is distribution, not marketing.

Tether reports $1.04B Q1 profit. The Treasury-float moat keeps holding.

Exodus Pay goes live in all 50 states as trading revenue craters.

Tether made $1.04 billion in Q1. The Treasury float won't always be this good.

Tether's Q1 profit hit $1.04 billion. The audit still hasn't.

Meta chose USDC for creator payouts. Stablecoins just became back-end infrastructure.

Twenty-One Capital is becoming a Bitcoin operating company. Tether wants more than the float.

Regulated stablecoin issuance just became middleware. Tether's distribution moat is looking thinner.

Stable Sea embeds WisdomTree tokenized treasury in operating cash. The float is the target.

Computershare plugs tokenized equity into transfer-agent rails. Wrappers just got complicated.

Western Union built USDPT to cut its SWIFT bill. The consumer layer comes later.

USDT just crossed $150B. The slope is the signal, not the level.

Twelve European banks are building the euro stablecoin MiCAR was designed for. USDC should pay attention.

Latest crypto news without the noise

Visa's stablecoin settlement spans nine chains now. Liquidity is the new moat.

Exodus Pay goes live all 50 states. The UFC deal is distribution, not marketing.

Tether reports $1.04B Q1 profit. The Treasury-float moat keeps holding.

Exodus Pay goes live in all 50 states as trading revenue craters.

Tether made $1.04 billion in Q1. The Treasury float won't always be this good.

Tether's Q1 profit hit $1.04 billion. The audit still hasn't.

Meta chose USDC for creator payouts. Stablecoins just became back-end infrastructure.

Twenty-One Capital is becoming a Bitcoin operating company. Tether wants more than the float.

Regulated stablecoin issuance just became middleware. Tether's distribution moat is looking thinner.

Stable Sea embeds WisdomTree tokenized treasury in operating cash. The float is the target.

Computershare plugs tokenized equity into transfer-agent rails. Wrappers just got complicated.

Western Union built USDPT to cut its SWIFT bill. The consumer layer comes later.

USDT just crossed $150B. The slope is the signal, not the level.

Twelve European banks are building the euro stablecoin MiCAR was designed for. USDC should pay attention.