The post After Perps Approval, Stablecoins Still Anchor Risk appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Picture a trader rotating out of altcoins after a volatile week. They don’t retreat to fiat; they sit in USDC, waiting for the next perp entry. This is how risk is actually warehoused in crypto: in dollars that live on-chain. That habit just met a new regulatory inflection. The CFTC approved a bitcoin-referenced perpetual futures contract, and separately offered staff-level relief around posting customer-owned digital commodities and payment stablecoins as margin in certain foreign-futures setups. The headlines may look technical, but they touch the very pipes of crypto risk. So the question isn’t whether stablecoins matter after “perps approval.” It’s why they are still the instrument most desks trust to meter, move, and measure risk. The Big Picture: Why This Moment Matters Regulatory clarity in derivatives tends to ripple out into collateral, settlement, and market structure. On May 29,
Cardano’s total stablecoin market cap has climbed to roughly $54.88 million, a 15% jump from where it stood in early March 2026. That figure captures just how quickly liquidity has been building on the network over the past several weeks. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces Prolonged Downtrend Through 2027, Analyst Warns USDCx Drives the Surge Circle’s USDCx now commands the largest share of Cardano’s stablecoin market at 45.20%, with USDM at 26.90%, USDA at 15.45%, and DJED at around 5.90%. Data from Cexplorer shows that nearly 8 million USDCx were minted within just the last two days of the reporting period. According to Messari data, Cardano recorded a 61% rise in stablecoin market cap over the past seven days — the highest among major blockchain networks tracked during that period. Polygon came in second at 36%, followed by World Chain at 10.3%, HyperEVM at 7.4%, and XDC Network at 3.5%. Source: Messari Net stablecoin flow for the current epoch on Cardano has reached approximately $8.55
The post RAIN token’s $9B surge faces ZachXBT insider warning appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
RAIN, the token linked to Rain Protocol, has come under scrutiny after crypto traders and on-chain investigator ZachXBT raised questions about its supply structure, liquidity activity and project links. Summary FabianoSolana claimed RAIN reached a $9B FDV while 81 wallets held nearly all supply. ZachXBT said RAIN deployer-linked wallets were active in Uni V3 liquidity positions. The claims add fresh pressure to thinly traded tokens with hidden supply and insider concerns. The discussion began after FabianoSolana claimed that RAIN had become a top 15 crypto token with a fully diluted valuation near $9 billion. The account also alleged that the top 81 wallets hold 99.97% of the token supply. That claim has not been independently confirmed by the project in the posts reviewed. However, it drew attention because high wallet concentration can increase price risk if insiders, early holders or r
The post Court Order Forces Circle to Freeze $12.6M USDC Linked to Zama Privacy Protocol appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
TLDR Circle executed a court-mandated freeze on $12.6M USDC stored within Zama’s privacy-focused smart contract The action originated from a class action lawsuit claiming Overnight Finance’s Maxim Ermilov misappropriated over $15M from treasury wallets Zama claims it was unexpectedly caught in the middle without prior notification of the freeze The entire contract pool was locked, preventing access to funds belonging to innocent Zama protocol users Blockchain investigator ZachXBT described the move as establishing a concerning precedent for freezing protocol contracts containing mixed user deposits In the early hours of Saturday morning, Circle implemented a freeze on $12.6 million worth of USDC following a federal court directive to blacklist a smart contract operated by Zama, a privacy-focused protocol. New: According to @zachxbt, @circle has frozen Zama’s con
Stablecoin supply hits $322B; USDT+USDC hold ~83% as the CLARITY Act advances in the U.S. Senate. Liquidity, exchange pairing, and custody models may shift.
The post Circle Freezes $12.6M in Stablecoins Linked to Zama Without Prior Notice: ZachXBT appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Stablecoin issuer Circle froze $12.6 million in USDC dollar-pegged tokens linked to privacy protocol Zama’s confidential USDC smart contract on Saturday, according to onchain sleuth ZachXBT. The smart contract is “publicly labeled” on block explorers and the privacy protocol’s technical documentation, ZachXBT said. The exact reason for the freeze is “unclear,” he said, adding that wallets linked to the Overnight Finance decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol deposited $12.4 million into the Zama protocol on May 11, 2026. He said: “Overnight Finance held a governance vote recently to distribute treasury funds after holders alleged the team was rug-pulling. Regardless, it’s precedent-setting to unilaterally freeze the contracts or addresses of a protocol where funds have been commingled with Zama users.” Source: ZachXBT “From my understanding, the Zama team does
The post ZachXBT Says $12.6 Million In Zama CUSDC May Have Been Frozen After Circle Blacklisting appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
A new controversy is making the rounds in crypto after blockchain investigator ZachXBT said Circle may have blacklisted a contract tied to Zama’s confidential USDC, or cUSDC, on Ethereum, freezing around $12.6 million in user funds. According to ZachXBT, the blacklist action happened roughly seven hours before he shared the update, and it appears to have locked the contract address used for Zama’s privacy-focused stablecoin setup. If accurate, that would mean users suddenly lost access to a very large amount of funds without much warning, which is exactly the kind of thing that tends to set off alarms in the crypto world. What makes the situation even messier is the fact that the address allegedly froze after recently taking part in an Overnight Finance governance vote about treasury allocation. That detail matters because it suggests the contract wasn’t
