Circle USDC
Issuer of USDC, the second-largest stablecoin. Operates Arc, its own settlement chain, and increasingly mints USDC natively across L2s.
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Recent Circle coverage
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The Weekly Grind (May 15–May 21): Web3 Salaries Crash 75%!
Crypto chaos: Web3 salaries plummet 75%, $657M vanished in a tweet, 9,000 ATMs dark.
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You Can Now Bet on SpaceX's $2 Trillion IPO on Binance — Without Owning a Single Share
Binance just launched Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts, letting anyone on earth speculate on SpaceX's valuation before it goes public. Wall Street just got disintermediated.
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America Just Gave Stablecoins a Federal ID Card — Senate Passes GENIUS Act 68-30
The US Senate passed the GENIUS Act 68-30, creating America's first federal stablecoin regulatory framework. 68 senators just decided the future of USDC, Tether, and every dollar-pegged token in crypto.
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Warren Just Called Coinbase's Bank Charter Illegal — and She Wants Trump's Texts to Prove It
Senator Elizabeth Warren is accusing the OCC of illegally granting national trust bank charters to nine crypto giants including Coinbase, Ripple, Circle, and Paxos — and demanding all communications between OCC officials and the Trump family by June 1.
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Wall Street Is Lobbying the Government to Kill the Exchange Eating Its Lunch
CME Group and ICE — the corporate parents of the world's biggest futures and stock exchanges — just told the CFTC to regulate Hyperliquid out of existence. HYPE dropped 9%. Arthur Hayes said to get bent.
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Hackers Hit THORChain on 4 Blockchains at Once — $10.8M Gone, Trading Halted, No One Knows How
THORChain was drained across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base simultaneously on May 15. RUNE dropped 12%, all trading and signing was halted, and the team still hasn't explained the attack vector.
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Hyperliquid Just Killed Its Own Stablecoin — and Handed the Keys to Coinbase
Less than a year after launching USDH, Hyperliquid is sunsetting its native stablecoin and making Coinbase the official treasury deployer for $5 billion in USDC. The hottest DeFi exchange just went full centralized on its settlement layer.
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Blind Signing Has Drained Crypto of Billions. Ethereum Just Launched the Kill Switch.
The Ethereum Foundation, Ledger, MetaMask, Trezor, Fireblocks and WalletConnect just launched Clear Signing — an open standard that replaces the hex garbage users blindly approve with human-readable transaction descriptions. Bybit's $1.5B hack started with a blind signing. So did most of yours.
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Circle Built a Blockchain Where Gas Fees Cost Dollars — BlackRock & a16z Just Paid $222M to Get In
Circle raised $222M from BlackRock, a16z, and Apollo for Arc, a Layer 1 where USDC is the native gas token. $3B valuation, 100+ institution testnet, and a direct shot at Ethereum's institutional market.
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Congress Banned Stablecoin Yield. BlackRock Just Filed Two Funds That Give It Back.
The world's largest asset manager quietly filed SEC paperwork for two tokenized money-market funds specifically designed to let stablecoin holders earn Treasury yield — the same yield that Congress just voted to ban stablecoins from paying. The loophole is elegant. The implications are massive.
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In 48 Hours, Kraken Dropped $600M and Applied to Become a Federal Bank
Kraken parent Payward acquired Hong Kong stablecoin firm Reap for $600M on May 7, then filed for a federal OCC trust charter on May 8. That's $2.65 billion in acquisitions and a banking license application in a single year. Here's the empire they're building.
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Someone Sent Grok a Morse Code Tweet — Then Walked Away With $175K in Crypto
A single obfuscated tweet tricked xAI's Grok into executing a $175K on-chain transfer — no private keys stolen, no smart contract exploit. Just a chatbot doing what it was told.
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A Crypto Exchange Just Bought Wall Street's Back Office for $4.2 Billion
Bullish, the Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange, is acquiring Equiniti — the transfer agent behind 20 million shareholders and $500 billion in annual payments — in one of the largest crypto deals ever. Wall Street's plumbing is going on-chain.
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JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and the CFTC Chair All Showed Up to Crypto's Biggest Conference — on the Same Day Bitcoin Hit $81K
Consensus Miami 2026 opened with a jaw-dropper: Wall Street didn't just attend — they sponsored. Institutional attendance doubled to 35% of the crowd, representing $10 trillion in AUM. Bitcoin noticed.
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Coinbase Just Agreed to Kill Passive Stablecoin Yield — And They're Calling It a Win
The CLARITY Act stablecoin yield compromise bans 'hold and earn' stablecoin rewards in the US. Coinbase backed the deal anyway. Here's the multi-billion dollar calculation behind that decision.
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Visa Just Settled $7 Billion in Stablecoins — and Quietly Doubled Its Blockchain Network
Visa's stablecoin settlement pilot hit a $7B annualized run rate — up 50% in a single quarter — and just expanded to 9 blockchains including Base, Polygon, and Stripe's Tempo. TradFi isn't coming to crypto. It's already here.
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The Weekly Grind (Apr 21–Apr 27): $606M DeFi Hack Frenzy & U.S. Crypto Derivatives Race
DeFi hacks hit $606M in 18 days, while Kalshi and Polymarket battle for the U.S. crypto derivatives market.
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Morgan Stanley Just Made Itself the Fed for Stablecoins — Tether and Circle Now Pay It Interest
Morgan Stanley's new MSNXX Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio quietly makes the $200B wealth manager the preferred reserve custodian for the entire stablecoin industry under the GENIUS Act.
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69,000 AI Agents Are Already Spending Crypto — And None of Them Asked Permission
Coinbase's x402 protocol just launched an app store where AI agents autonomously buy Bloomberg data, AWS compute, and trading APIs with USDC — no human approval required. 165 million transactions have already settled.
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A Green Beret Helped Plan the Maduro Raid. Then He Bet $33K on Polymarket and Walked Away With $410K.
U.S. Army Master Sergeant Gannon Van Dyke is the first person charged with using classified military intelligence to insider-trade on a crypto prediction market. The DOJ and CFTC both came for him.