Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure company owned by financial tech giant Stripe, is applying for a national bank trust license from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). If approved, Bridge will provide regulated stablecoin issuance, management and custody services under the framework of the GENIUS Act signed this summer. Bridge co-founder Zach Abrams said the regulatory structure would allow the company to drive "the tokenisation of trillions of dollars of assets" in the complia...
Maya Parbhoe, a presidential candidate in the South American country of Suriname, has an ambitious vision to build a bitcoin country that is more deeply rooted in cryptocurrencies than El Salvador. Parbhoe, who is also the CEO of Daedalus Labs, a Bitcoin and NOSTR-based service, has outlined a bold plan to fight corruption and provide tangible benefits to citizens by adopting the Bitcoin standard - provided she wins the upcoming 2025 election. Her first...