Bank of Italy research suggests stablecoins aren’t necessarily cheaper for remittances

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For years, stablecoins have been marketed as crypto’s breakthrough application for cross-border payments, promising near-instant transfers at a fraction of the cost charged by traditional remittance providers. Sending USDC across a blockchain may indeed cost only a few cents but a new study from the Bank of Italy suggests that isn’t what most people actually […]

U.S. SEC Staff Clarifies That Some Crypto Stablecoins Aren’t Securities

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has no business with certain stablecoins or their issuers, the regulator’s staff declared in the latest statement outlining the corners of the crypto sector for which it doesn’t have a legal interest. Since the agency was taken over by President Donald Trump-appointed leadership and formed a Crypto Task Force […]