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BUSD Halt Puts Stablecoin Dependencies Under Review

The shutdown of Kraken's staking service was still being discussed, and the chain team was considering how assets would appear on the bridge. Paxos was ordered to stop issuing BUSD, another regulatory blow that made discussion of stablecoins more tense. The news did not directly rewrite the bridge under test, but it made technical compatibility and lasting reliance two separate questions.

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The shutdown of Kraken's staking service was still being discussed, and the chain team was considering how assets would appear on the bridge. It had not settled on an external stablecoin as an integration choice. The latest regulatory news gave that caution a more immediate reason.

Paxos was ordered to stop issuing BUSD, another regulatory blow that made discussion of stablecoins more tense. Some worried that fixing a single asset path too early could later constrain game-side interfaces. A-Zhen proposed listing the dependencies first, separating what the technology could handle from whether an external issuer could keep supplying the asset.

The news did not directly rewrite the bridge under test, but it made technical compatibility and lasting reliance two separate questions. The engineers planned to check those conditions in the design review. No final stablecoin arrangement had been chosen.