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Money & Markets
The issuer of the world's most active stablecoin is plugging into 70% of the top 10 US banks through a single PaaS integration—but the 'evaluate' caveat suggests a long testing road ahead.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The architect of the Reg Crypto Assets NPRM is exiting 18 days before the comment period closes. With no successor named and the commission reduced to two, the framework faces its first real stress test.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Citigroup is wiring Coinbase's stablecoin rails into its merchant payment platform so corporate clients can accept digital dollars without touching crypto. The yield structure reveals how the GENIUS Act redistributes — rather than kills — stablecoin income.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The rules are still hardening, but the operating picture is no longer speculative. What's fixed, what's moving, and why tokenized-deposit programmability matters for institutional money and agent commerce.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Seven of the UK's largest banks completed live remortgage and marketplace payments using tokenized deposits on Quant's platform. The Clearing House picked the same vendor for its US rollout.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
25 of the largest US banks just picked their infrastructure vendor for tokenized deposits. The institutional settlement layer that stablecoins haven't built is forming — and it connects to the rails that already move $2 trillion a day.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The crypto-native L2 hit the milestone in roughly one month — but only for non-US users. With the SEC's Innovation Exemption now issued, the offshore sandbox is about to move onshore.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The agentic brokerage launched automated event-driven trading via Kalshi, folding CFTC-regulated prediction-market signals into stock and bond strategies. It's the same pattern: infrastructure before regulation.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The Federal Reserve released two NPRMs for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act, completing the federal agency rulemaking picture and narrowing the window before the January 18, 2027 enforcement cliff.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The GENIUS Act bars stablecoin issuers from paying yield to holders. That has not stopped them from generating billions – it just changed who gets paid.
◆ Nolan Pratt
