Issue archive
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Banks move from debate to signed commitments and live volume
Twenty-one institutions agreed to set up a joint dollar stablecoin issuer, SoFi moved its card programme to settlement in its own token, tokenised deposits went live in Singapore, the US and the UK, the CLARITY Act failed a Senate vote while the Fed and the OCC kept writing the GENIUS framework, and the Eurosystem launched Pontes — ten stories of the month.
The banks' answer produces its first live transaction
HSBC and Standard Chartered settled the first transfer on SWIFT's ledger, 39 state associations announced BankChain, JPMorgan opened the door to its own stablecoin, and Treasury, the OCC and the FASB are writing the GENIUS framework — ten stories of the month.
The month of an institutional watershed
The MiCA deadline redistributed the EU market, the US missed its GENIUS rulemaking deadline, and three forces converged on the incumbent issuers — Open USD, Visa's issuance platform and the banks' tokenized deposits.
The heavyweights all move on stablecoins at once
Payment networks, the largest banks of the US, Japan and Korea, central banks and lawmakers — twelve stories, including the joint Stripe/Visa/Mastercard platform and The Clearing House tokenized-deposit network.
37 EU banks build a euro stablecoin
Qivalis, MiCA licence consolidation, and the first euro-token settlements between regulated banks.