Open USD Is Coming for Circle's Margins

STBL has launched USST, an institutional-grade stablecoin backed by real-world assets (RWAs), on the Stellar network. The launch, announced July 1 and shared with Bitcoin.com News, comes through a partnership between STBL and the Stellar Development Foundation. USST runs on STBL‘s Stablecoin 2.0 infrastructure and gives institutional holders of tokenized treasuries a way to access […]

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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

RLUSD activity has reportedly driven more than $2.5 billion in XRP Ledger settlement volume, according to Evernorth research.

Open USD signs 140+ partners including Visa, Stripe, and Coinbase; Circle stock drops 16% as the stablecoin fight shifts to distribution.

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.