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KPMG Gives Tether Its First Clean Audit—Erasing the Market's Last Structural Objection

KPMG issued an unqualified opinion on Tether's 2025 financials, the first full audit in the stablecoin issuer's history after years of settlements, fines and skepticism.

● Top storyBy The Research Desk3 min readUpdated 46m ago
KPMG Gives Tether Its First Clean Audit—Erasing the Market's Last Structural Objection
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EM Debt's $886 Billion Rally Meets Selective Buyers as Spreads Tighten
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Digital Assets

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The Bankers Won. Now What Does Bitcoin Actually Mean?

TradFi bought the revolution and hung it on the wall — and with BTC flatlined at $63K and fear creeping back in, crypto has to figure out what it's selling now.

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Enterprises Want Settlement Rails, Not Blockchain Ownership—A16z Lays Out Why

Protocol teams that orchestrate partner-led solutions, not those selling infrastructure ownership, are winning enterprise deals, a16z crypto said.

By Gokhshtein MediaAugust 16, 20263 min read
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Editor’s ReadAugust 15, 2026

Lifting the $184,500 Payroll Tax Cap Would Hit 6 Percent of Workers—and Close Two-Thirds of Social

A bipartisan Senate proposal to remove the Social Security wage cap could generate $3 trillion over a decade but still leave the program roughly one-third short of full solvency.

“Social Security's Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund is on track to run dry in the fourth quarter of 2032, according to the program's latest trustees' report. At that point, incoming payroll t”

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