Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson recently floated a radical change to the project’s funding model. The proposal is to allow the funding of 5–10% of Cardano’s enormous treasury, currently worth around $1.2 billion. This would be accomplished by investing in other assets, like Bitcoin (BTC), or even stablecoins. This Solidity support...

Crypto. Volatile. These words are practically synonymous, aren't they? You see the headlines: fortunes made and lost overnight. Behind the scenes, a far less sensational, yet crucial, force is at work: market makers. Quite frankly, there’s a ton of disinformation out there about them. Let's cut through the noise.Market Makers...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and stablecoins are crossing in a new, largely uncharted frontier. This powerful combo is capable of a DeFi and TradFi renaissance. Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies designed to maintain a stable value relative to a reference asset like the US dollar, are already transforming how people transact and interact within...

Imagine a bustling marketplace in Nairobi. Mama Njeri, a Kenyan small business owner, wants to import textiles from Tanzania. Traditionally, this has meant dealing with convoluted banking processes, paying large transaction fees, and waiting several days for the payment to process. Now, imagine Mama Njeri using an AI-powered stablecoin –...

Doesn’t that sound like peanut butter and chocolate! Here’s the beauty—two revolutionary technologies combining to make something much more amazing. The hype may be real, but the potential truly is undeniable. Before we jump headfirst into this brave new world of AI-powered stablecoins, let's pump the brakes for a second....

Without them, DeFi grinds to a halt. We’ve experienced that promise – and that peril – firsthand. Circle’s IPO to $9 billion success certainly signals faith restored, no question, but does that automatically make anything with a “stablecoin” label in it gold? Absolutely not. What about the AI stablecoin? Here's...

The new frontier of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and stablecoins combined are making strong waves across the entire Web3 ecosystem. Li Wei, a blockchain content strategist with Circle, points out the progress of AI-native stablecoins. These novel solutions promise to confront some of the crypto world’s most pressing issues, such as...

Another tech panacea, delivering the moonshot, targeted to Africa. Sound familiar? We've seen it before: grandiose promises of technological leaps bypassing traditional development, only to fall flat due to lack of infrastructure, education, or simply being the wrong solution for the problem. Are AI stablecoins any different? Is this the...

The buzz around stablecoins is deafening. We hear the conversations everywhere about regulation, liquidity ratios and systemic risk. Pardon me if I don’t take the bait. Are we truly discussing the endgame, after all? Are we unwittingly reshaping into a new age? Under this scenario, Africa’s economic future would continue...

Today, stablecoins are becoming an essential bridge. They serve as bridges between the familiar, relatively stable finance world and the exciting, risky, but often chaotic crypto universe. As we move deeper into 2025 and beyond, their importance will only increase. This would create a stable, predictable, and reliable entry point...