While Brussels is still polishing its regulatory chessboard, American stablecoins are already taking the global digital pot. Tether moves like an uncontrollable queen, BlackRock quietly places its rooks, and the euro watches the game from the edge of the board, a few moves behind.
The announcement of the launch of mUSD, Metamask's native stablecoin, marks a strategic milestone for the crypto ecosystem. Indeed, by partnering with Bridge, a Stripe subsidiary, and the decentralized infrastructure M0, Metamask is not just adding a feature: it is reshaping the contours of decentralized finance as we know it.
Brussels wields MiCA, Binance complies: nine stablecoins face regulatory guillotine. The ailing European crypto market witnesses the burial of USDT and others.
Massa launches an ambitious incentive program with 7 million Massa tokens. The goal is to enrich its ecosystem and boost participation.
Like an ant, this institutional investor has alternated buying Ethereum at opportune times and has been rewarded handsomely. Indeed, since September, when ETH was trading between $1,500 and $1,600 per coin, this whale was able to amass a tidy sum of over 41,000 ETH. Imagine how much that is worth today, with ether valued at over $2,200.
Several reports on the performance of dollar-backed digital currencies suggest that crypto wallets containing stablecoins will eventually replace credit cards. The appetite for dollar-backed stablecoins in payments is increasingly surprising, and could even pose a threat to the business model of traditional payment companies such as Visa, PayPal and MasterCard. What do traditional payment companies have to say about this silent competitor?