Stablecoins


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Banks Stablecoin Project, Watch for Fed Taper in 2022

Binance Asia Services takes an 18% stake in HG Exchange. Korea’s Shinhan Bank and South Africa’s Standard Bank show off stablecoin project. Fed tapering a potential crypto market catalyst in 2022. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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House Financial Services Committee Meets on Crypto Regulation

The House Financial Services Committee is hosting six crypto executives, including Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, and Coinbase Inc. CEO Alesia Haas today in a wide-ranging hearing on digital assets and stablecoins. “The Hash” panel discusses what to expect and the potential impact on the U.S. crypto regulatory landscape.

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Crypto CEOS Testifying at Landmark Hearing

Amidst regulatory uncertainty, FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Bitfury’s Brian Brooks, and Circle’s Jeremy Allaire are among the six executives speaking at today’s House Financial Services Committee hearing. CoinDesk’s Nikhilesh De discusses the potential outcomes. Plus, the Senate Banking Committee will reconvene next Tuesday to discuss stablecoins.

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Policy

Japan Moves to Impose New Regulations on Stablecoin Issuers: Report

The country is reportedly moving to introduce legislation in 2022 to limit the issuance of stablecoins to banks and wire transfer companies.

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Policy

The Big Miss in the Biden Administration’s Stablecoin Report

We know that banks will not continue to rule the payments landscape. So why give them control over stablecoins?

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E-Commerce Giant Mercado Libre Taps Paxos to Power Crypto Service in Brazil

Mercado Libre, Latin America’s largest e-commerce company by market value, is integrating Paxos’ blockchain infrastructure to allow users in Brazil to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, and the USDP stablecoin. "The Hash" hosts discuss the latest initiative accelerating mainstream adoption of crypto and stablecoins across Brazil and the world.

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Cato Institute Exec on the Future of Money and Crypto

James A. Dorn, vice president for monetary studies at the Cato Institute, applauds the private sector for inventing better alternatives to fiat currencies. In his CoinDesk opinion piece titled “Let the Market Come Up With Better Money Tech,” he writes market-based cryptocurrencies should be allowed to proliferate.

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Finance

Can Stablecoin Supply Measure Ethereum Adoption?

As innovation on top of Ethereum continues to connect DeFi with the outside world, stablecoin growth appears to be a strong measure of adoption.

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Venture Capital Investor Tim Draper: ‘Bitcoin Got Me Going’

Tim Draper, prominent venture capital investor and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, discusses investing in bitcoin, the U.S. crypto regulatory landscape, journey to NFTs, stablecoins, and the wider crypto markets. “Bitcoin is clearly the strongest of the cryptocurrencies … it’s going to lead us into a new anthropological age,” Draper said.

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Finance

Stablecoins’ Tenuous Relationships With Banks

For as much as stablecoins market themselves as a nonbank solution, they still need banks, writes Yale’s Steven Kelly for the Future of Money Week.

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