What the largest stablecoin issuers announce: new chains and products, reserve reports, licences and partnerships from Tether, Circle, Sky, Ethena and PayPal.
Tether and Kazakhstan are reportedly planning a pilot for a stablecoin pegged one-to-one to the Kazakhstani tenge, backed by tenge held in reserve. It would be a government-backed token and a limited test before any wider rollout. This would extend Tether's non-dollar stablecoins beyond its existing euro-pegged EURT.
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Research on how DeFi works and breaks: MEV, AMM design, lending risk, oracle security and mechanism design — papers and serious forum posts with real analysis.
Rules, enforcement and court decisions that touch DeFi and stablecoins: the SEC and CFTC, US stablecoin law, MiCA in the EU and actions against protocols.
Real-world assets coming onchain: tokenized Treasury funds, credit and equities from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Ondo and others — launches, sizes and integrations into DeFi.