Clarity Act: US Senate advances landmark crypto bill despite bipartisan opposition
The legislation eyes giving the crypto industry its first comprehensive federal rulebook, defining when digital tokens will become securities or commodities...
Tag : stablecoins
Visa, M-Pesa pick Congo as testing ground for stablecoin-driven cross-border payments
Visa, M-Pesa, along with cross-border payments company Onafriq, have piloted a system that settles mobile money top-ups using stablecoins...
Open USD: 140 rivals to share one single cryptocurrency
Visa, Mastercard and Google sit among the Open USD's founding backers, with Fireblocks on board as a key infrastructure partner...
Stablecoin card issuer Kulipa raises fresh funding
Kulipa’s successful fundraising comes amid stablecoins becoming the new normal in the virtual payment space, settling more than USD 300 billion daily...
The great crypto reckoning
The European Union fully implemented its Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation in late 2024 and throughout 2025...
Trump’s Bitcoin dream collides with tariff reality
Even without tariffs, Bitcoin mining is a brutally competitive, low-margin business, and that has only intensified in 2025...
Illicit crypto volume hit a record USD 40 billion in 2024
Although there are tens of thousands of different cryptocurrencies, most threat actors still demand payment in Bitcoin when a ransomware attack occurs...
IF Insights: Analysing the ‘Silent Revolution’ in African crypto sector
Nigeria is leading the 'Crypto Revolution' in Sub-Saharan Africa, by securing the second position on the Global Crypto Adoption Index, up from 11th in 2022...
IF Insights: PYUSD and the hope of crypto industry ‘following rules’
PYUSD users can convert any of the cryptocurrencies supported on PayPal to PYUSD...
IF Insights: EU’s path-breaking crypto regulation may pressurize others to follow suit
Stablecoins seek to maintain a fixed exchange rate with a more reliable asset, such as the US dollar, a fiat currency, or another stable cryptocurrency...