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A new report from Bitso reveals a fascinating shift in user behavior across Latin America’s cryptocurrency market. In 2025, stablecoins linked to the US dollar—such as Tether’s USDt (USDT) and…
Stablecoins Are Being Sold as Crypto’s “ChatGPT Moment.” That’s Not the Interesting Part When Brad Garlinghouse says stablecoins are crypto’s “ChatGPT moment,” he’s not talking about technology. He’s talking about…
Stablecoins have long been framed as crypto’s most pragmatic innovation: less volatile than cryptocurrencies, more efficient than traditional payments, and increasingly embedded in global settlement flows. Yet as their scale…
When Vitalik Buterin speaks about stablecoins, he is not critiquing a peripheral product category. He is interrogating one of crypto’s most fundamental promises: the ability to create neutral, censorship-resistant money…