Regulation

Stablecoin transaction volume hit a record $1.79 trillion in June, surging 63% from May's $1.1 trillion, according to Visa's Allium-powered analytics dashboard.

India's central bank has revived its push to isolate the banking system from cryptocurrency, urging lawmakers to prohibit the use of digital assets in payments and settlements.

Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have embedded the x402 payment protocol at the edge of their content delivery networks, enabling agent-to-service micropayments.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is renewing calls to ban elected officials and their spouses from issuing or promoting crypto assets, including meme coins, following President Donald Trump's disclosure that he earned over $1.2 billion from crypto last year.

'For years, Strategy has been the most dominant Bitcoin buyer in the world and a one-way source of Bitcoin demand.