Tagged: circle

November 13, 2023 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle has unveiled a new v2.2 upgrade to USDC and EURC that significantly reduces gas costs, improves support “for account abstraction, and further bolsters security for transactions on EVM blockchains.” The upgrade adds to the momentum of USDC innovation “after its recent expansion to 6… Read More

October 8, 2023 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Burnt, a Web3 foundry, announces the public launch of its testnet for XION, the layer-1 blockchain built for consumer adoption. The company also announces “a prior strategic investment from Circle Ventures, the venture capital arm of Circle, a global financial technology firm and issuer of… Read More

September 30, 2023 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Research has been launched with a charter “to accelerate and amplify technical innovation within crypto, blockchain, and Web3 through open-source research.” Circle Research’s inaugural open-source contribution, Perimeter Protocol, “offers a new standard for building on-chain credit markets.” Open Source R&D At Circle, they claim… Read More

September 16, 2023 @ 10:40 am By Michael Wong  |  

Global payments company Circle Internet Financial (Circle) and Southeast Asia’s super app Grab announced a groundbreaking partnership that aims to usher in Web3 customer experiences in Singapore. This innovative collaboration will see the integration of Circle’s new Web3 Services platform directly into the Grab app…. Read More

September 12, 2023 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins are digital currencies which are pegged to major (and relatively stable) fiat currencies like the US dollar, Euro, the British pound (among others). Recently, the team at S&P Global provided a deep dive report into valuation and depegging of stablecoins. As explained in the… Read More

September 5, 2023 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) says it is modernizing cross-border money movement as it improves its stablecoin settlement capabilities with the Solana blockchain. Simultaneoulsy, Visa reports that it is working with merchant acquirers Worldpay and Nuvei. Visa says it has “moved millions of USDC between its partners… Read More

September 1, 2023 @ 5:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

USDC issued by Circle will reportedly be “native to OP Mainnet and can be considered the official form of USDC for the ecosystem.” Over time, native USDC liquidity may “grow and replace the currently circulating bridged USDC liquidity that comes from Ethereum.” Native USDC will… Read More

August 25, 2023 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL), a top publicly traded Fintech, announced the launch of a dollar-based stablecoin PayPal USD or PYUSD. The stablecoin is being issued in partnership with Paxos, a top, regulated digital asset firm. Stablecoins are one of the most promising sectors of crypto…. Read More

August 24, 2023 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle has announced that its dollar-based stablecoin, USDC, will be added to six new blockchains including; Base, Cosmos via Noble, NEAR, Optimism and Polkadot, and Polygon PoS. The first five will be added in September, with Polygon joining in October. By adding USDC to these… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

USDC is launching on six new blockchains, and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) says that it is increasing its support for stablecoins with an investment in Circle. Circle will reportedly “take full control over USDC issuance and governance.” Meanwhile, Coinbase and Circle will also “maintain a commercial relationship.”… Read More

August 14, 2023 @ 4:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Allaire, CEO at Circle Internet Financial, says that the next major pillar of the Fintech firm’s strategy is Web3 services. Last year, Circle made an acquisition of a crypto infra platform called Cybavo. This week, the company has launched the first new product milestone… Read More

August 9, 2023 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On July 30th, 2015, the Genesis block of Ethereum was created. Eight years later, today Ethereum is the dominant blockchain network “with growing developer interest, lower transaction fees, and faster settlement times.” Yet, fewer than 0.5% of the 100 million developers worldwide “are actively building… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Allaire, Co-founder & CEO of Circle, a Fintech that’s focused on stablecoins and other services supporting the blockchain and crypto sector, says that despite the hype that they’re all about the US, the firm “estimates that 70% of USDC adoption is non-US, and some… Read More

July 13, 2023 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle – the issuer of several stablecoins, including dollar-based USDC, has issued a public declaration demanding the US take the lead in regards to stablecoin regulation. The statement via Twitter by Allaire follows the announcement that two US Senators have revamped… Read More

July 8, 2023 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Allaire, the  Co-founder & CEO of Circle, which helps businesses and developers harness the power of USDC for payments and commerce, reveals that they quietly released the first major milestone of Circle Web3 Services into production beta this week. We quietly released the first… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Currently, cross-border payments are a “hassle” for many small and mid-sized enterprises with international business partners, the team at German software firm SAP notes in a blog post. The team at @SAP is now testing cross-border payments for their customers with $USDC.https://t.co/QrMHHATsUb pic.twitter.com/mTHWbJde3a — Peter… Read More

June 7, 2023 @ 11:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Circle is continuing its push to mitigate regulatory risk by receiving licenses to operate beyond the boundaries of the US. This week, Circle announced it had been approved as a Major Payment Institution (MPI) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Circle is a top… Read More

June 1, 2023 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Stablecoin issuer Circle will launch USDC, its dollar-based stablecoin, on Arbitrum this  June 8th. Circle states that this version of USDC will eventually replace the currently circulating bridged version of USDC that comes from Ethereum – which becomes USDC.e. Arbitrum is a blockchain technology that… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, the House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Fintech, and Inclusion, will hold a hearing on stablecoins. The hearing is being joined by draft legislation that may end up providing a viable path to regulate this new form of payments and transfers…. Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Fox-Geen. Chief Financial Officer at Fintech firm Circle and Kash Razzaghi, the firm’s Chief Business Officer, have noted that digital currencies and the blockchains on which they travel can offer considerable utility “as a new, unified infrastructure for payments, commerce and capital markets built… Read More