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Crypto & Stablecoins blogs and newsletters worth following, and what each is good for
These are the blogs and newsletters Briefwire reads to cover Crypto & Stablecoins, each one fetched and checked before it is listed. Company engineering blogs, analyst newsletters and practitioner posts. The receipt is the paragraph.
The list
In no ranked order. The note beside each says what it is good for, which is a different thing from how big it is.
Broadest crypto news coverage including stablecoin issuance and reserve disclosures.
DeFi-focused investigative reporting; covers protocol risk that price-focused outlets skip.
DeFi protocol mechanics and yield-source analysis; relevant to stablecoin backing questions.
Protocol upgrade schedule — the dependency that most stablecoin and L2 roadmaps hang off.
On-chain data reports on stablecoin flows and illicit finance; heavily cited by regulators.
Enterprise blockchain and stablecoin coverage aimed at banks rather than traders.
Sceptical crypto reporting; a deliberate counterweight to promotional coverage.
Exchange-side product and listing announcements; a read on institutional demand.
Weekly stablecoin velocity and network data points; the citable on-chain numbers.
Tokenised-equity data and policy positions from the largest dedicated crypto fund.
SDK breaking changes and Travel Rule / IVMS101 schema updates; dates custody compliance work.
National trust charters and enforcement for stablecoin issuers post-GENIUS; the gatekeeper's own releases.
Every US rulemaking mentioning stablecoins — GENIUS Act implementation as it lands, structured and primary.
MiCA's e-money-token supervisor; issuer guidance and technical standards at the source.
Global stablecoin recommendations and cross-border payments workplan; what national regimes converge to.
The largest issuer's announcements — attestations, chain expansions, US entity moves — first-party.
Foundation announcements on payments and stablecoin integrations; the written record beside the library's Solana YouTube.
Where USDS/MakerDAO-successor rate and collateral decisions are actually made; executive votes appear here first.
GHO stablecoin and largest-lender risk parameters debated and decided in the open.
Noelle Acheson daily on stablecoin flows and macro adoption; ex-CoinDesk/Genesis research head, name on every call.
The advisory shop behind major DAO balance sheets on stablecoin credit and RWA structures; practitioners writing.
Laura Shin's newsroom in writing; litigation and regulatory detail beyond the library's Unchained video feed.
Crypto trade press: exchange, protocol and stablecoin news with the regulatory beat beside it. Replaces Glassnode Research, whose feed answers HTTP 403 to every server-side reader (2026-09-12).
Weekly Asia stablecoin regime tracking — Japan, Hong Kong, Korea — a beat US outlets cover late.
Illicit-finance and sanctions tracing with the transaction evidence attached; a second measurement beside Chainalysis rather than a rewrite of it.
Derivatives-venue listing and product notices, plus the market-microstructure research the desk publishes under its own name.
NY Fed staff research; its stablecoin-run and tokenised-settlement posts move the policy debate, though most posts are broader macro.
Files the comment letters and amicus briefs the CLARITY and developer-liability fights turn on; its own filings, not a report of someone else's.
Institutional-grade crypto news desk; the default citation for deal and volume data.
Written research arm of Bankless; thesis pieces with explicit valuation reasoning.
Spot-market crypto authority in the making; enforcement and rulemaking straight from the source.
Protocol design and governance argued in the open by the person whose posts become roadmap; nothing between the reasoning and the reader.
How the list was made, and what we do with it
- Chosen by hand
- Every source is here because people who work in Crypto & Stablecoins say substantive things on it, not because it is large. Enough of them to cover the field, few enough to audit.
- Checked before listing
- Each feed is fetched before it goes on the list, and a feed that answers but has stopped publishing is a fail, not a warning. Every source is English-language and public.
- Read, so you need not
- You do not have to read all of them. Each new post is read, and the claims worth keeping are pulled out with a link to the paragraph they came from.
- Sent as a brief
- The 12 lines that rank highest across the whole Crypto & Stablecoins beat go out daily or weekly. A claim several independent sources made ranks higher — that counts agreement, not accuracy.
The blogs and newsletters are one part of the beat. Every Crypto & Stablecoins source, all media — or just the podcasts or YouTube channels.
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