Decentralized finance (DeFi) is awash with stablecoins earning Treasury yields, while smaller players in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry struggle to raise capital for expanding data centers with new GPUs. A new stablecoin protocol called USD.AI wants to bridge that gap by turning crypto’s idle liquidity into loans for the machines that train and run artificial intelligence. The protocol, which now counts about $345 million in circulation, according to a Dune Dashboard, backs its synthetic dolla ...