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Stablecoin supply rises for a sixth week as a bank moves a fund onchain

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  1. Dollar stablecoins in circulation grew for a sixth week in a row, to $268.4 billion.
  2. Fennick Bank moved the share register of its money-market fund onchain for institutional clients.
  3. Errand, a shopping agent, said it settled 40,000 merchant payments in stablecoins last month. We could not verify the figure yet.
  4. A draft rule on stablecoin reserves opened for comment, with replies due in six weeks.
  5. Bitcoin closed the week up 2.1% in quiet trading, with no single story behind the move.

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The breakdown

What it means when a bank keeps a fund's share register onchain

A share register is the list of who owns a fund, and for most funds it still sits in a database run by an administrator.

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Real or demo?

Errand says its shopping agent settled 40,000 payments

The claim rests on one chart in a launch post, so we asked Errand for the payment records behind it.

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Where value showed up

A florist in Tucson pays her Dutch growers in dollar stablecoins

Ines Varga used to wait four days, and pay a fee at both ends, whenever she bought tulips from Aalsmeer.

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The number

11 days

How long Tallyhand's contractors in Manila waited for a bank transfer before the firm switched, by its own count.

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