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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Crypto Compliance Officer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Explore Crypto Compliance Officer salaries in 2026. Base pay ranges from $90K to $300K. Discover who's hiring and what skills boost pay.
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OKX Pleaded Guilty to Running an Illegal Money Business in the US. Now Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered Are Buying In
In February 2025 OKX admitted to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and paid $504M. On October 6, 2026, Circle, Ripple, QRT and Standard Chartered's SC Ventures invested at a $25B pre-money valuation, the same price ICE paid in March. The round size wasn't disclosed, and OKX is still paying for a DOJ-required compliance consultant until February 2027.
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Two Weeks After Its Engineers Were Charged Over HYPE Perps, Robinhood Says It Will Sell HYPE Perps to Every American
At its HOOD Summit, Robinhood said US users will get perpetual futures on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE within months: 10x leverage on BTC and ETH, 3x on the rest, 0.01% per trade through year-end, run through Bitstamp. It also announced 24/7 stock trading via Bruce Markets and AI agents that trade for you. On the same day, House Oversight sent Hyperliquid a letter about insider trading.
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Senate Investigators Checked 846 Sanctioned Iran Wallets. 84% of Them Ran on Tether
A 28-page report from Senate Democrats led by Richard Blumenthal says USDT has become Iran's primary crypto payment rail, used by 84% of 846 sanctioned Iran-linked wallets and 87% of 757 wallets tied to terror financing. It says Tether took nine months to freeze 34 wallets Israel had designated, and wants Treasury and the DOJ to investigate. Tether says it froze about $550 million in Iran-linked USDT this year alone.
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The Weekly Grind (Sep 22–Sep 28): SEC Down to Two, $351M Bitget Hack
SEC's Peirce exits, Bitget loses $351M, and Robinhood memecoins scam $18.4M.
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Hackers Took $351.6M From Bitget Without Stealing a Single Private Key. They Forged the Transfer Orders and Bitget's Own Signing Machines Approved Them
At 18:31 UTC on September 24, Bitget detected unauthorized transfers from its hot and warm wallets. The final count was $351.6 million, the biggest crypto hack of 2026 so far. The CEO says no private keys leaked. The attackers got into a third-party tool Bitget uses every day, forged transfer instructions, and let Bitget's own signing system approve them. It's the same basic approach as the $1.5B Bybit heist. Here's what was taken, where it went, and why it matters for anyone working in exchange security.
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Circle Pays Binance Every Month to Push USDC. Now Binance Owns $100M of Circle, and the Filing Landed the Same Day the Sanctions Probe Leaked
Binance bought 1,237,011 Circle shares at $80.84 each in a private placement that closed September 17, two days after Manhattan prosecutors filed to seize Iranian oil money that ran through Binance accounts. Circle disclosed it on September 22, the same day Bloomberg reported Binance is under federal investigation for Iran sanctions violations. The deal comes with a new five-year agreement where Circle pays Binance a monthly fee based on USDC balances. Here is how the money moves in both directions, and what the 8-K says about getting out.
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The Democrats Who Helped Write the CLARITY Act Just Voted to Kill It. 49-50. Crypto's Senate Bill Is Dead for 2026.
Seven Democrats spent a year negotiating the crypto market-structure bill. On Tuesday every one of them voted no, three Republicans joined them, and the cloture motion didn't even get a simple majority. Lummis: 'It's over.' Coinbase fell 8.65%, Polymarket odds of passage hit 7%, and the industry's hundreds of millions in lobbying bought a bill that never reached the floor.
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Trump Made $1.4 Billion on Crypto Last Year. Republicans Just Sent Democrats a 'Final Offer' That Makes Him Give Up Control of It.
Sunday night, 635 pages, and a GOP aide calling it 'a final offer on the bill.' The new CLARITY Act text says federal officials, judges and their spouses must divest crypto or park it in a blind trust, and lets state attorneys general enforce it. Democrats have until 2:15 p.m. Tuesday to say whether that's enough. Nine of them need to say yes.
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The Weekly Grind (Jun 30–Jul 5): $70B Bug, Trump Coin Losses, & AI Trading
From a $70B Aptos bug to AI trading on Robinhood's new blockchain, here's your weekly crypto job market impact.
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A Hacker Borrowed $65 Million, Gave It All Back, and Kept $6 Million
Summer.fi's LazyVault protocol was drained of $6 million in DAI after an attacker exploited a share-accounting flaw — using a $65.4M flash loan to execute the entire heist in a single transaction.
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Six Feds Have 14 Days to Write the Rules for a $320 Billion Industry
The GENIUS Act clock is ticking. Six federal agencies must finalize stablecoin regulations by July 18 — reshaping Circle, Tether, and every bank that wants a piece of the $320B stablecoin market.
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A Privacy Protocol Built to Hide Your Crypto Just Lost 99% of Its Treasury to Hackers
Hinkal, an on-chain privacy protocol, was completely drained of $820K in USDC today via a 'proofless deposit' exploit. The attacker laundered the funds through sanctioned mixer Tornado Cash. The irony is staggering.
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140 Firms Including Visa, BlackRock, and Google Just Built a Circle Killer
Open USD (OUSD) launched June 30 with 140+ backers — Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google — and a model that gives 100% of reserve yield to partners instead of the issuer. Circle's stock crashed 17% overnight.
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He Promised Crypto Liquidity Yields for 3 Years. It Was a Lie. Now He's Forfeiting 11 Cars.
Goliath Ventures CEO Christopher Delgado pleads guilty to a $400M crypto Ponzi scheme, admitting $250M in investor losses. The 'liquidity pools' were fake. The Lamborghinis were real.
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The Bank That's Held Wall Street's Money Since 1784 Just Opened a Direct Door to Stablecoins
BNY Mellon — the world's largest custodian with $59.3 trillion in assets — just made USDC the first stablecoin on its Digital Asset Custody platform, letting institutions mint and burn dollars into crypto without ever leaving the bank.
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A Hacker Turned $4,000 Into $9.5M in 90 Minutes — And Resupply's Team Didn't Even Chase Them
Resupply, a stablecoin lending protocol backed by Convex and Yearn Finance, was drained of $9.5 million via a donation attack on a freshly deployed vault. The attacker started with a $4,000 flash loan and used 1 wei as collateral to borrow 10 million stablecoins.
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Stablecoin Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Explore Stablecoin Engineer salaries in 2026, with base pay ranging from $90K to $300K. Discover what top protocols offer.
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The ECB President Personally Lobbied to Kill Binance's EU License — To Clear the Path for the Digital Euro
Christine Lagarde allegedly pressured Greece to block Binance's MiCA application. The motive? Analysts say the ECB is protecting its digital euro from crypto's biggest exchange.
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SBF Will Be 59 When He Gets Out. His Last Appeal Just Failed.
The Second Circuit unanimously rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's final appeal on June 12, locking in his 25-year sentence. His projected release date is 2044. Trump already said no to a pardon.