Stablecoins Could Grow to 10% of U.S. Money Supply: Standard Chartered and Zodia Markets
Cross-border payments and FX-equivalent transactions are key areas of growth, the report said.
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Another SEC Democrat to Drop Out, Leaving Republicans Running Agency by February
Commissioner Jaime Lizárraga, a Democrat, said he’ll join Chair Gary Gensler in exiting the U.S. securities regulator, which will leave two Republicans and a single Democrat.
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Ethereum Layer-2 Teams Welcome Proposal to Overhaul Blockchain
Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.
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Crypto Foe SEC Chair Gary Gensler Will Quit When Trump Takes Office
Gensler’s plan to fully leave the commission — not just step down as chairman — on Jan. 20 answers the major question of whether he’d stick around to defend his policies until his term ends in 2026.
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Mastercard and JPMorgan Link Up to Bring Foreign Exchange on the Blockchain
Mastercard’s Multi-Token Network (MTN) is joining forces with the bank’s Kinexys Digital Payments unit, the recent rebranding of JPM Coin.
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Juiced USDS Yields Woo Solana Traders to Sky’s Stablecoin
Sky’s Solana rollout has been a smashing success. Will it last?
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Trump Said to Consider Crypto Lawyer Teresa Goody Guillén to Lead SEC
A former SEC attorney who now represents blockchain companies, Goody Guillén would be “an instant change maker,” said one token project founder.
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Project Liberty Joins SOAR to Challenge Centralized Social Media Giants With AI, Decentralized Data
AI studio SOAR, created by Ancestry founder Paul Allen, brings Project Liberty veri sharing and storage portals for families and communities focused on local government.
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From Real Estate and Stocks: Former Premier League Player’s New-Found Love of Bitcoin
Soccer player George Boyd made over 100 Premier League appearances and has now joined crypto ETF issuer Jacobi Asset Management as an ambassador.
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Republican State AGs and DeFi Lobby Sue SEC Over Crypto Enforcement Actions
The suit wants a court to block the SEC from suing crypto exchanges moving forward.