Stable Coins

South Africans can now pay with cryptocurrency at thousands of retail stores nationwide, following a new partnership between QR payments provider Scan to Pay and Bitcoin payments company MoneyBadger. According to a Tech Central report, […]

Ripple, a major blockchain company and issuer of the XRP cryptocurrency, is expanding operations in the Kingdom of Bahrain through a partnership with a local fintech ecosystem builder. Ripple on Thursday announced a strategic partnership […]

Key takeaways Stablecoins are nearing a $300-billion market cap, but adoption remains limited due to risks around depegging, collateral and trust. The depegging of stablecoins such as NuBits (2018), TerraUSD (2022) and USDC (2023) has […]

The Indian government expressed renewed skepticism toward cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin as it prepared to launch new digital currency initiatives backed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). India will soon launch an RBI-backed digital currency, […]