Circle vs Open USD: The Stablecoin War Finally Moved From Market Cap to Distribution

Robinhood's integration of DeFi with regulated finance could drive mainstream adoption, but users must navigate inherent risks in yield products. The post Spark powers Robinhood’s USDG stablecoin savings product launch appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, letting customers charge for web pages, datasets, APIs or MCP tools with payments settling in stablecoins over the x402 protocol. Will Papper, formerly of Syndicate, joined the company as product manager for Agent Payments to

The newest major stablecoin consortium is offering businesses a better deal than Circle has. Will Circle be fazed?

Open USD consortium with Google, Shopify and Stripe brings stablecoins to checkout, as Stripe, Visa and Mastercard move to shared rails and always-on settlement.

XRP whale outflow share on Coinbase jumped to 25.7% by July 1, while Binance withdrawals above 1M tokens held near 50%. Binance never had to change much. The withdrawal pattern for XRP barely moved through the back half of June, staying dominated by big wallets the entire stretch. Coinbase told a different story. Transfers above […] The post Something Is Pulling Whale-Sized XRP Off Coinbase Fast appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

Analysts don't think the threat of a new stablecoin launch was enough to warrant a major Circle (CRCL) sell-off on Tuesday.

Jeremy Allaire argued that stablecoin networks are winner-take-most businesses built over years, two days after the launch of the 140-plus-firm Open USD consortium sent Circle's stock down more than 17% in a single session.

Circle reportedly minted another $1 billion of USDC on Solana, adding to the network’s already large gross issuance total for 2026.