Author: Scarlett Sieber (with Ian Fong, Tina Loncaric, Dhanum Nursigadoo, Virginia Pereira Alvarez, Kinga Swiderska) Published by: Routledge (an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business), New York and London, May 2026 “Intersection” or “Inflection Point”? This is the question I kept asking myself as I read this very timely and thoughtful…
TL;DR Kraken has enabled deposits and withdrawals of USDCx on Canton Network. USDCx is backed 1:1 by USDC held in Circle’s xReserve, according to Kraken. Canton is built for regulated financial institutions and tokenized real-world asset workflows. Kraken Adds Canton Network Support For USDCx Kraken has enabled deposits and withdrawals of USDCx on the Canton…
TL;DR BA Labs has proposed doubling key LITE-PSM-USDC-A parameters in the Sky stablecoin system from 400 million to 800 million. The proposal says USDC reserves stand at 4.13 billion, up 108% since the last recalibration in October 2024. The change would raise daily refresh capacity to 1.6 billion and total serving capacity to 2.4 billion,…
TL;DR Kraken says it now supports USDCx deposits and withdrawals on the Canton Network. USDCx is described as a Canton-native stablecoin backed 1:1 by USDC locked in Circle’s xReserve on Ethereum. Canton is a permissioned, privacy-enabled Layer-1 network built for regulated financial institutions and tokenized real-world assets. The move adds another exchange connection to institutional…
Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been…
Millionaire businessman Kevin O’Leary has indicated that stablecoins are more valuable than Bitcoin because of their role in the global financial system. He also highlighted the “big opportunity” as one of the layer-1 networks could be the biggest beneficiary of traditional finance (TradFi) firms moving on-chain. Kevin O’Leary Praises Stablecoins Over Bitcoin In an X…
Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been…
The market that kept growing The global stablecoin market cap crossed US$321 billion in late April 2026, reaching a new all-time high on inflows of more than US$1 billion in a single week. 1 That figure represents more than 50 per cent growth in twelve months – growth that occurred during a period when the…
Ethereum’s price has lagged behind Bitcoin at key moments, retail confidence is low, and every failed breakout has given critics another reason to argue that ETH has lost its place. However, some market experts are not buying that idea. One of those market experts taking the opposite side of that argument is Tom Lee. The…
They say journalists never truly clock out. But for Christian, that's not just a metaphor, it's a lifestyle. By day, he navigates the ever-shifting tides of the cryptocurrency market, wielding words like a seasoned editor and crafting articles that decipher the jargon for the masses. When the PC goes on hibernate mode, however, his pursuits…