Samsung Wallet Activates USDC Accounts for Eligible U.S. Galaxy Users
The Solana Foundation announced on November 5, 2026 that Samsung Wallet’s Stablecoin Account went live on November 2, 2026, allowing eligible U.S. Galaxy users to buy, hold, send and receive USDC, a U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin, on Solana without installing a…
Greece Approves 10% Crypto Capital Gains Tax With €500 Exemption
Greece’s parliament approved a 10% tax on individuals’ capital gains from crypto-asset transfers on November 5, 2026, as part of an omnibus bill from the Ministry of National Economy and Finance, according to the Hellenic Parliament’s legislative record. The measure…
Circle Q3 Revenue and Reserve Income Rise 17% to $865 Million
Circle Internet Group announced third-quarter results on November 4, 2026, with total revenue and reserve income rising 17% year over year to $865 million and net income from continuing operations increasing 5% to $226 million. The largest growth driver came…
Tether’s Q3 Attestation Shows $1.5B Profit and a Nearly $8B Buffer
Tether International, S.A. de C.V. on October 30, 2026 published its attestation for the third quarter of 2026, prepared by BDO, covering the company’s Financial Figures and Reserves Report as of September 30, 2026 and the composition of the reserves…
Sky Protocol Posts $37.19M Q3 Net Revenue, Sixth Straight Positive Quarter
Sky Frontier Foundation published the Sky Ecosystem Q3 2026 Quarterly Report on October 29, 2026, reporting Net Revenue of $37.19 million for the three months ended September 30, 2026, up 11.8% from $33.28 million in Q2 2026 and up from…
Circle and ACI Worldwide Announce Colombian USDC Settlement Pilot
ACI Worldwide and Circle Internet Group announced on October 27, 2026 a collaboration to demonstrate how stablecoin settlement can be integrated into existing banking and payment infrastructure, beginning with a Colombian pilot built around Bre-B, the country’s interoperable instant payments…
SoFi Debuts SoFi Earn Tokenized Deposit Paying 4.40% APY
SoFi Technologies announced on October 22, 2026, the launch of SoFi Earn, an interest-bearing tokenized deposit account at SoFi Bank earning 4.40% APY that the company describes as the first and only national bank-issued tokenized deposit for consumers. The product…
Mastercard Launches Stablecoin Security Risk Intelligence Solution
Mastercard announced Stablecoin Security, a new risk intelligence solution for stablecoin payments, on October 19, 2026, at Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas, with Borderless.xyz and Keyrails as initial partners. According to the October 19, 2026 announcement, the solution combines payment…
ESMA Expects Crypto Firms to End Services for Non-MiCA Stablecoins
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU regulator and supervisor, published an opinion on 8 October 2026 setting out supervisory expectations that crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) authorised under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) cease providing services related…
Samsung Wallet to Launch USDC Transfers for U.S. Galaxy Users
Samsung Electronics America announced on October 7, 2026 that stablecoin wallet functionality will launch in Samsung Wallet starting in the last week of October 2026 for eligible Galaxy users in the United States, initially supporting USDC, a U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin.…
Circle Partners With SAP-Backed Tereina to Embed Stablecoin Payments in ERP
Tereina, an SAP-backed financial services company, and Circle Internet Group announced a partnership on October 7, 2026 to integrate Circle’s USDC and EURC stablecoins into Tereina’s payments infrastructure, starting with SAP Cloud ERP. The joint announcement, datelined Palo Alto, California…
Open USD Goes Live on Solana With Over $1 Billion in Launch Liquidity
The Solana Foundation announced on September 30, 2026 that Open USD (OUSD), a US-dollar stablecoin from the company Open Standard, is now live on Solana. Businesses can mint and burn OUSD 1:1 for dollars at no cost and put it…
ESMA Proposes Targeted MiCA Changes for DeFi Stablecoins and Staking
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on 30 September 2026 published its response to the European Commission’s public consultation on the review of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), proposing targeted amendments covering token classification, decentralised finance, stablecoins, staking,…
Coinbase Taps Citi to Power Virtual Accounts and Stablecoin Acceptance
Coinbase announced on September 28, 2026 that it is expanding what businesses can build on its payments infrastructure through a deepened collaboration with Citi. Under the arrangement, Coinbase selected Citi’s Virtual Account Wallet, part of the bank’s Banking-as-a-Service offering, to…
Tether Says 2026 Iran-Linked USDT Freezes Total About $550 Million
Tether said in an announcement dated September 28, 2026, that actions involving its USD₮ stablecoin have resulted in approximately $550 million in assets frozen during 2026 across wallets that U.S. authorities identified as connected to Iran’s Central Bank and Iranian…
