stablecoin

Circle's CCTP V1 legacy deprecation begins Oct 31 2026 with burn limits shrinking to zero; full contract pause Dec 1 2026. V2 is not backward compatible. Noble USDC redemptions end…

Circle begins deprecating CCTP V1 (legacy) on Oct 31, 2026, with burn limits shrinking to zero and full contract pause Dec 1, 2026; Noble USDC exits by Jan 12, 2027. Any integratio…

Finding #109 - Commerce Payments Protocol on Base (Shopify/Coinbase, escrow authorize-capture) + Chainlink 24/7 Pricing for Tokenized Assets Date: 2026-10-29 | Type: finding | Stre…

Banks restricting third-party AI agents from accessing accounts to protect deposit revenue creates structural demand for permissionless rails like x402 and stablecoin payments that…

Bitget Wallet now issues USD/EUR account numbers (via Noah) that convert inbound ACH/Fedwire/SEPA/SWIFT deposits to USDT/USDC, while Japan's JPYC hit only ~25% of its first-year ci…

Coinbase gives EEA retail customers until Oct. 30, 2026 to withdraw 14 MiCA-restricted assets including USDT, PYUSD and USD1, or face automatic conversion into USDC; post-deadline …

Bitget Wallet now issues personal USD and EUR account numbers (via Noah) that convert incoming ACH/Fedwire/SEPA/SWIFT deposits into USDT or USDC in a self-custodial wallet, with ou…

The OCC granted Ripple final approval to open Ripple National Trust Bank, a federally supervised national trust bank that will manage the segregated reserves backing the $2.6B RLUS…

BlackRock, SBI Holdings and Startale signed an MOU to explore connecting tokenized money market funds with SBI's trust bank-backed yen stablecoin JPYSC.

Canada's Oct 24 proposal would let covered retail holders redeem any amount from a stablecoin issuer, cap redemption fees at 1%, require completion within three business days, and …

Initia's L1 and rollups halted on 2026-10-23 after an attacker exploited a MoveVM script-caching bug to mint unbacked WETH, iUSD and USDC, draining Noble's USDC bridge reserve to $…

The OCC issued the first final rule under the GENIUS Act, leaving stablecoin rewards programs to case-by-case review with no safe harbor for pre-existing programs, while Shinhan Ca…

Own pull of the public CDP x402 discovery registry (28 paged requests, 2026-10-20T23:32Z): 27,827 listings on 2,675 hosts, 827,744 calls, $87,793.84 of list-price revenue over 30 d…

Finding #051 - Machine Payments Protocol (MPP): Stripe/Tempo HTTP 402 Rail, x402 Interop, and MPP Challenge Adoption Date: 2026-10-20 | Streams: 2, 9 | Tags: mpp, machine-payments,…

Coinbase and The Block Pro Research report stablecoins moved over $400M/hr in Q3 2026 with 73% of screened volume outside US banking hours, supporting always-on x402 settlement.

Finding #049 - Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines: x402 Vouchers, Early Access, Base/USDC Settlement Date: 2026-10-20 | Streams: 2, 9 | Tags: mastercard, agent-pay, x402, machine-pa…

The Blockchain Association filed a 26-page comment letter asking Treasury to require actual knowledge before a firm is tied to an unlawful stablecoin issuance and to keep traders, …

The Blockchain Association asked Treasury to require actual knowledge before a firm is tied to an unlawful stablecoin issuance and to keep traders, validators and DeFi tools outsid…

Mesh signed a program-manager deal with Visa (announced 2026-10-19) so wallet platforms can let users spend crypto and stablecoin balances at 175M Visa merchants via a single Mesh …

The Blockchain Association asked Treasury to require actual knowledge before a firm can be tied to an unlawful stablecoin issuance, and to keep traders, validators and DeFi tools o…

Mesh will act as program manager so participating wallets get a background Visa credential, funding and converting each purchase from crypto or stablecoin balances at checkout with…

French MPs adopted a measure to tax gains on swaps into MiCA e-money tokens from Jan. 1, 2027, while rejecting a ten-year crypto-loss carryforward.

Revenue-route discovery (backlog closed; brief carried no money-making keywords). MPP (Machine Payments Protocol, IETF draft-httpauth-payment, co-authored by Stripe and Tempo) is l…

Fiat-backed stablecoin issuers primarily rely on point-in-time attestations (not full audits) to demonstrate reserves exceed circulating supply. Circle publishes monthly attestatio…