The future of finance is neither fully centralized nor fully decentralized; it is hybrid. In that future, Central Bank Digital Currencies could form the backbone of a more connected, efficient, and ...

Stablecoins have quietly grown into systemically relevant money-like instruments. By October 2025, their total supply surpassed $300 billion, led by USDT and USDC — a scale rivalling major ...

HyFi’s atomic settlement model represents a paradigm shift in the financial industry. By uniting traditional systems with ...

Overview: Ripple can operate without XRP, thanks to its expanding services like Ripple Payments, RLUSD, and CBDC projects. XRP still offers a key advantage in f ...

Rau said the market views private firms differently from listed ones, adding that growing confidence in Pine Labs’ brand ...

HSBC’s group head of digital assets and currencies has said stablecoin issuers should be tightly regulated and that the ...

# Bahamian payment providers could join forces to submit one combined bid on a Central Bank contract that promises to “revolutionise the payment system” in this nation while generating improved ...

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China now settles nearly a third of its $6.2 trillion trade in yuan instead of dollars — up from 20% in 2022. But economic ...