Visa disclosed that stablecoin card payment volume across its 160 active stablecoin-linked card programs grew nearly 200% year-over-year in fiscal 2026.

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France should tax cryptocurrency conversions into stablecoins

LogosFi, Inc. officially debuted and launched its testnet for tokenized assets and stablecoins at Money20/20 USA on October 19, 2026.

LogosFi, Inc. developed an API-driven shared evidence infrastructure that delivers machine-readable, cryptographically signed data on tokenized assets and stablecoins.

Payment company Paysend and tokenized asset issuer Securitize joined LogosFi, Inc. as its initial design partners at the October 19, 2026 testnet launch.

Headquartered in Malaysia, licensed digital bank Monfi Digital Bank Ltd. publicly launched a regulated, bank-issued US dollar stablecoin named Monfi USD (MUSD) at the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore on October 19, 2026.

Fireblocks provides custody infrastructure and key management for Monfi USD (MUSD), while Chainalysis provides on-chain monitoring and sanctions screening.

Coinbase, Robinhood, and Gemini are live platform integrations on AUTH, while Kraken is in a beta integration phase.

Germany’s Sparkasse savings bank network initiated the rollout of cryptocurrency trading directly within its banking app on October 19, 2026, targeting its retail customer base.

Sparkasse launched its cryptocurrency trading service on October 19, 2026, with five initial savings banks, including Frankfurter Sparkasse, Taunus Sparkasse, Sparkasse Karlsruhe, Sparkasse Rottal-Inn, and Niederrheinische Sparkasse RheinLippe.

Under TokenLogic's proposed entry route, an approved counterparty supplies USAT to Aave V4's Tokenization Spoke to receive waUSAT receipt tokens before swapping them for GHO.

TokenLogic's October 15, 2026 proposal specifies zero swap fees for the module while leaving contract addresses for Avalanche USAT, waUSAT, reserve, commercial counterparties, and pricing strategies unspecified.

An October 12, 2026 risk assessment by LlamaRisk reports a standard $1 million mint and burn minimum for USAT with Anchorage Digital Bank.

Redeeming USAT stablecoins for U.S. dollars requires an active client account relationship under a written agreement with issuer Anchorage Digital Bank.

TokenLogic's proposed Aave stability module requires approval for every swap, and revoking access prevents subsequent swaps, including attempts to recover previously deposited waUSAT receipt tokens after exchanging them for GHO.

TokenLogic submitted an October 15, 2026 governance proposal to introduce a permissioned GHO Stability Module for USAT on Aave V4 on Avalanche.

The European Securities and Markets Authority's e-money token register remained at 50 entries representing 25 unique entities, while the asset-referenced token register stayed at zero in the October 16, 2026 update.

AIsa supports transaction settlement using both conventional fiat currencies and stablecoins.

The study's instrumental-variable method relied on U.S. banks passing through significantly larger shares of federal funds rate increases to deposit rates once the federal funds rate exceeded 3%.

Economists Iñaki Aldasoro and Rashad Ahmed attributed USDC's higher sensitivity to deposit rates to its closer connections to U.S. institutional users and domestic financial markets relative to USDT's offshore focus.

Higher U.S. bank deposit rates slowed stablecoin growth without reducing total existing stablecoin supply or turning market growth negative.