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Stablecoin de-pegging to be probed by Ripple, Warwick Business School’s Gillmore Centre

The research is funded by the University of California, Berkeley’s Centre for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, and will involve collaboration between Warwick’s own Dr Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj, Ripple Research, and the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), the $50 million research division of Ripple.

21 March 2025

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MoonPay secures $200 million revolving credit line from Galaxy

In what has been dubbed one of the largest of its kind in the crypto industry, MoonPay’s credit line with Galaxy comes at a time of unprecedented momentum for the crypto industry, ensuring the solution provider is in a position to capitalise and solidify its role in the global digital economy.

21 March 2025

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Stable Sea raises $3.5m for global stablecoin offramping

Stable Sea, a stablecoin liquidity and orchestration company founded by former Block staffers, has emerged from stealth with $3.5 million in funding.

21 March 2025

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Europe needs digital euro to counter risk of economic coercion - ECB economist

Europe needs a digital currency to safeguard against threats from new forms of money like stablecoins, and to reduce reliance on US payments firms amid heightened political tensions, warns European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane.

20 March 2025

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Utila raises $18m for institutional digital asset wallets

Digital assets operations platform Utila has raised $18 million to help it cash in on the rising popularity of stablecoins.

20 March 2025

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XRP soars as SEC drops Ripple case

Ripple's XRP token has surged 10% after the firm declared victory in its four-year legal tussle with the Securities and Exchange Commission

19 March 2025

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Bakkt sees shares plunge as crypto firm loses major customers

Shares in digital asset player Bakkt tumbled by more than a third on news that the firm has lost two major customers, Bank pf America and Webull.

19 March 2025

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BX Digital to roll out DLT-based settlement system for digital assets in Switzerland

BX Digital, a subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart, has received conditional approval from Swiss market regulators to operate a blockchain-based settlement system for digital assets.

18 March 2025

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Binance receives $2 billion investment from Abu Dhabi's MGX

Abu Dhabi investment group MGX has invested $2 billion in stablecoin in crypto exchange Binance.

12 March 2025

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Trump's embrace of stablecoins makes digital euro more urgent - EU official

As the European Central Bank aims to complete the testing phase for a digital euro by October, a top EU official says the project is becoming more urgent in the face of America's embrace of stablecoins under the Trump administration.

11 March 2025

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North Korean hackers cash out $300 million from ByBit heist

North Korean hackers have successfully cashed out $300 million from the record-breaking $1.5 billion crypto heist of ByBit Exchange.

11 March 2025

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US consumer fraud losses top $12.5bn in 2024

Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, a 25% increase over the previous year, according to Federal Trade Commission data.

11 March 2025

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