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Fiserv shares jump on stablecoin announcement

Payments provider and financial services technology company Frank's International announced it plans to launch a digital asset platform and a stablecoin, FIUSD, by the end of 2025, according to a press release.

Shares were up more than 6% in premarket trading.

The company said its stablecoin will be “available to Fiserv clients via solana, one of the most trusted and used blockchains for stablecoins.”

“With our scale, reach, and technology leadership, Fiserv is uniquely positioned to advance stablecoin-powered payments and help democratize access to blockchain financial services,” Takis Georgakopoulos, Fiserv COO, said in the release.

The move comes after the Senate passed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act last week, which aims to provide a regulatory framework for stablecoins.

The stablecoin coin market jumped 8% in the last week, reaching a $271 billion market cap, DefiLlama data shows.

Ari Redbord, VP and global head of policy and government affairs at TRM Labs, told Sherwood News that the passage of the GENIUS Act is a landmark moment for the crypto ecosystem — proof that Congress is serious about creating clear, thoughtful rules of the road for digital assets.

“While there’s still a long way to go before a stablecoin bill reaches the president’s desk, this bipartisan momentum signals that regulation and innovation are not at odds. They’re part of the same conversation,” Redbord said.

Shares were up more than 6% in premarket trading.

The company said its stablecoin will be “available to Fiserv clients via solana, one of the most trusted and used blockchains for stablecoins.”

“With our scale, reach, and technology leadership, Fiserv is uniquely positioned to advance stablecoin-powered payments and help democratize access to blockchain financial services,” Takis Georgakopoulos, Fiserv COO, said in the release.

The move comes after the Senate passed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act last week, which aims to provide a regulatory framework for stablecoins.

The stablecoin coin market jumped 8% in the last week, reaching a $271 billion market cap, DefiLlama data shows.

Ari Redbord, VP and global head of policy and government affairs at TRM Labs, told Sherwood News that the passage of the GENIUS Act is a landmark moment for the crypto ecosystem — proof that Congress is serious about creating clear, thoughtful rules of the road for digital assets.

“While there’s still a long way to go before a stablecoin bill reaches the president’s desk, this bipartisan momentum signals that regulation and innovation are not at odds. They’re part of the same conversation,” Redbord said.

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Crypto market snaps back as sentiment lifts, with altcoins from ethereum to XRP soaring

The market capitalization of the crypto industry has jumped around $83.2 billion in the last 24 hours, with privacy-focused token Zcash and worldcoin, the native cryptocurrency of the network backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, leading market gains, jumping over 22%.

But the last 24 hours have been good across the board:

Investors have been eager to see some positive signs around the Iranian conflict ending, coupled with hopeful outlooks around the CLARITY act, both breathing some life into assets, Kairos Research cofounder Ian Unsworth told Sherwood News.

Simon Shockey, a crypto strategist at crypto wallet infrastructure firm Privy, said the upswing stems from several things converging. He pointed to how alt markets broadly were very oversold following the bug found in Zcash that shook confidence.

Friday, Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic didn’t find any more serious bugs with the Zcash protocol after Shielded Labs requested the AI firm run a security audit of the network with Mythos.

Shockey added that the pool of willing sellers has dwindled. Even if structurally, AI is a much more compelling and asymmetric bet in the eyes of allocators, many of these crypto assets have simply run out of marginal sellers despite some shorter-term narrative-driven pumps. The only people left to sell at this point are the teams themselves and VCs.

Net-net: oversold conditions plus exhausted seller bases plus a macro backdrop thats stabilized equals a snapback, especially in names that have real usage or community conviction behind them,” Shockey told Sherwood.

$389M

US Attorney David Metcalf announced Thursday the arrests of Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk and Alexander Vladimirovich Ledenev, alleged senior members of AudiA6, a cryptocurrency money-laundering service believed to be responsible for laundering over $389 million.

The arrests coincided with a coordinated international takedown of AudiA6 and its infrastructure, involving the search of three properties, the seizure of servers and domains connected to the organization, as well as freezing cryptocurrency assets, according to a Department of Justice press release.

Tkachuk and Ledenev were “charged by criminal complaint with one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and one count of sting money laundering,” the DOJ said. If convicted, they face a maximum possible sentence of 20 years of incarceration.

Per the criminal complaint, AudiA6 offered services to conceal the origin of cryptocurrency linked to criminal activity, charging fees of up to 5% of the amount laundered.

The two defendants are in custody of Republic of Georgia authorities, and the US Attorney’s Office aims to seek their extradition to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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