'Stablecoin Summer' Incoming? Market Eyes 10x Growth Post-GENIUS Act. Photo by BeInCrypto The global stablecoin market is surging in 2025, with institutional giants like SoftBank and ARK Investment pursuing investments in infrastructure players like Tether. While Tether and other stablecoins continue to expand, analysts warn that rapid adoption carries financial risks, particularly to central banks’ ability to control interest rates and maintain exchange rate stability. Tether’s Expansion and Investor In ...

Tech-focused investment companies SoftBank and Ark Invest are among the firms in early stage talks to invest in Tether, issuer of the world's largest stablecoin USDT (USDT), Bloomberg reported on Friday. The report follows this week's news about Tether looking to raise up to $20 billion in a fundraising round that would value the firm at around $500 billion, which would make it one of the world's most valuable private companies. The fundraising and the hefty valuation underscores the red-hot stablecoin t ...

Stablecoins are on track to become one of the most powerful forces in global finance, with Citibank predicting issuance could hit $4 trillion by 2030. In a new report, the bulge-bracket bank lifted its bull-case projection for stablecoin issuance from $3.7 trillion earlier this year. The revision follows what Citi called blockchain’s “ChatGPT moment,” with stablecoins driving mainstream adoption at an unexpected pace. Stablecoins are a vital addition to the finance toolkit, especially for digitally nati ...

Tether’s talks to raise $20 billion from investors — valuing the stablecoin issuer at $500 billion — redefines the scale of the industry. That’s according to Daniel Worsley, co-founder of crypto software company OneBalance, who told DL News that a successful raise would “reset expectations” for the entire stablecoin industry. “A $500 billion valuation not only dwarfs prior benchmarks but also overshadows the GDP of El Salvador — the country where Tether is headquartered,” Worsley said. The potential dea ...

Stablecoin startups continue to rake in cash. The crypto company Bastion announced Wednesday that it had raised $14.6 million in a round led by Coinbase Ventures, the crypto exchange’s venture fund. Bastion is a white label issuer of stablecoins, which are cryptocurrencies pegged to underlying assets like the U.S. dollar. Rather than hire lawyers to secure regulatory licenses and software developers to write code, companies hire Bastion to more easily spin up their own branded stablecoins. Other particip ...

Key TakeawaysMicron Technology (MU) reported robust Q4 2025 earnings, surpassing analyst estimates with $11.32 billion in revenue and $3.03 in EPS, and provided strong Q1 2026 guidance, driven by significant investments in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and a strategic partnership with TSMC.U.S. stock markets, including the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, experienced a decline from recent record highs, with the S&P 500 falling 0.55% and the Nasdaq 100 dropping 0.7%, as Federal Reserve Chair Powell refrained from signa ...

YZi Labs, the family office linked to Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, is putting more weight behind Ethena Labs, the company behind the synthetic dollar USDe. The timing is interesting. Binance only recently added support for USDe across a few of its services, and now YZi is coming in with deeper backing. It looks like they’re making a clear bet that Ethena is picking up real traction. Ethena’s Numbers Are Climbing This move from YZi Labs comes after USDe saw a big jump in both supply and usage. The stab ...

A stablecoin bidding war on one of crypto's fastest-growing platforms is offering a preview of the industry's next phase — and who might control it.The contest played out on Hyperliquid, a fast-growing trading platform. The prize: the right to issue USDH, a new dollar-pegged token native to its network. The bidding involved key names in the world of crypto payments: Paxos, Agora, Ethena and the lesser-known Native Markets, a startup partnered up with Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge. The outcome offered a g ...

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