On a special episode (first released on May 14) of The Excerpt podcast: There’s something to cold hard cash. You can hold it; you can smell it; it feels a certain way in your pocket. Earlier this year ...

As stablecoin rules take effect and the US Senate Banking and Agriculture Committees advance market structure drafts, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — If the U.S. moved forward with creating its own digital dollar, banks, as we know them, could be a thing of the past. Last Wednesday, President Joe Biden ordered the Treasury ...

Hardly a week goes by without many Americans receiving some type of notification of the pending doom of the American dollar — ...

For the first time, the U.S. House of Representatives has dedicated an entire week, July 14–18, to advancing crypto legislation. The GENIUS Act introduces the first federal framework for stablecoins ...

Is Circle launching a digital currency bank? Circle, the fintech firm behind USDC, has filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish First National Digital ...

In 2025, China and the United States are deepening their rivalry in a new arena: digital currency infrastructure. In May, Hong Kong passed landmark legislation to regulate fiat-referenced stablecoins, ...

As China accelerates deployment of its digital yuan, and the European Central Bank advances toward a digital euro, the Republican Party is seeking to prevent the creation of a Central Bank Digital ...

June’s draft regulation for the digital euro would give legal backing to this demand. Phonemakers will be required to give ...