Open USD (OUSD) Explained: Can It Beat USDT, USDC and Swift? In the last week of September 2026, two very different visions of digital dollars went live within days of each other. On 30 September, Open USD (OUSD), a dollar stablecoin run by a company called Open Standard and backed by Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase…
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Robinhood Stock Tokens: What the AMC Clash Really Means 1. Introduction: Why Tokenized Stocks Matter Now Tokenized equities stopped being a conference slide this month and became a public argument between two chief executives. On 3 September 2026, AMC Entertainment chief executive Adam Aron attacked Robinhood over stock tokens that track AMC’s share price, and…
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Meme Coin History: How a 2013 Joke Became a $150B Market 1. Introduction: The $150 Billion Joke, Twelve Years On In December 2013 two engineers built a cryptocurrency to make fun of cryptocurrency. Eleven years later, in December 2024, the asset class they accidentally founded was worth more than $150 billion. Today, on 1 September…
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Bitcoin at $80K: Anatomy of a $3 Billion Short Squeeze Bitcoin has just delivered its strongest week in more than two years, clearing $80,000 on 25 August 2026 after six weeks of going nowhere. The headlines credit a White House crypto meeting, a pending Senate vote and a Treasury liquidity announcement. Those things all happened,…
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