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Why Europe should not just copy the American stablecoin model

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President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, argued against the need for privately issued euro-pegged stablecoins, even in the face of a market 98% dominated by dollar-denominated tokens. Despite the rapid global adoption of USD stablecoins, Largarde argued that Europe should focus on building tokenized settlement infrastructure anchored in central bank money rather […]

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Coinbase (COIN) bulls point to crypto legislation and stablecoins after earnings miss

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Coinbase’s ( COIN ) weak first-quarter earnings report sparked yet another divide on Wall Street over whether the crypto platform is building a more sustainable business or remains tied to crypto’s boom-and-bust cycles. Several analysts lowered forecasts after the company missed expectations for revenue and adjusted EBITDA as trading activity slowed across the crypto market.

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Ripple-linked XRP pushes towards $1.40 as tightening range lowers breakout chances

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XRP continues to grind towards the top of its recent range and the move is starting to take on more significance as liquidity has thinned out while the price continues to compress below resistance. This combination tends to make breakouts sharper when the market finally chooses a direction. News background • Analysts continue to point

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Stablecoins have their ‘permission slip’. Now comes the hard part.

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Stablecoins have moved from crypto-niche to an institutional priority, but the next phase of adoption will depend on infrastructure, privacy and real-world usability, executives from MoonPay, Ripple and Paxos said at Consensus Miami 2026. Richard Harrison, MoonPay’s vice president of banking and payments partnerships, said traditional financial firms are moving more quickly into stablecoins because

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NEAR Protocol (NEAR) is up 6.3%, leading the index higher

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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2142.44, up 0.1% (+2.73) since 4 PM ET Thursday. Seventeen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+6.3%) and ICP (+5.8%). Lagging behind: BNB (-0.4%) and CRO (-0.1%).

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The U.S. added 115,000 jobs in April, nearly double expectations

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The U.S. labor market continued to show at least modest strength in April, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The economy added 115,000 jobs during the month, well above economists’ expectations of 62,000, but down from 185,000 in March (revised from an initially reported 178,000). The unemployment rate remained at

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Coinbase outage linked to AWS outage draws criticism over Q1 layoffs and losses

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Coinbase (COIN) reported a several-hour outage in crypto trading on Thursday, which the Nasdaq-listed exchange attributed to an outage at Amazon Web Services. The incident drew criticism as Coinbase continues to struggle with declining trading activity, quarterly losses and staff layoffs. The crypto-trading platform said users were unable to trade across web and mobile services

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Crypto traders rush to hedge after bitcoin falls below $80,000: Crypto Markets Today

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Bitcoin BTC$80,209.47 fell back below $80,000 late Thursday after the United States launched new airstrikes in Iran, sending Brent crude briefly topping $100 a barrel. barrel before giving back some of the gains in Asian and European hours. The crypto market was already a bit jittery after strategy chairman Michael Saylor said the company would

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Stablecoin card usage growing 100% year over year, says Rain CEO

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Stablecoin-based cards could soon account for double-digit percentages of all cards in some Latin American markets, said John Timoney, head of strategic partnerships at Rain, a payments infrastructure platform. Retail spending on stablecoin cards increased by about 105% to 106% over the past year, Timoney said during a panel at Consensus Miami 2026. The cards

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