Tagged: usdc

February 13, 2022 @ 11:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets platform Okcoin is the first US regulated crypto-asset exchange to provide stablecoin USDC on top of Stellar. You may now deposit, withdraw, and trade Stellar USDC against US dollars via Okcoin. This offer is for all Okcoin clients “except for residents of the… Read More

January 31, 2022 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle has announced support for USDC on the Flow network. Flow is -a Web3 platform originally created by Dapper Labs, that includes an ecosystem of NFT projects including NBA Top Shot, BALLERZ, Matrix World, and others. USDC is the second-largest stablecoin by market cap in… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Ramp has shared a detailed look into how the early adoption of stablecoins helped them with increasing their Corporate Treasury returns. Alex Song, Head of Finance at Ramp, notes that during the past two and a half years, the Fintech company has been… Read More

December 28, 2021 @ 5:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

More than half a billion dollars worth of cryptoassets were stolen from exchanges in the first half of December, compliance firm Elliptic said in a recent blog post. On Dec. 11 and 12, close to $83 million was stolen from AscendEX, a cryptoasset exchange that… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 1:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain and crypto-assets space has grown tremendously during the past 18 months due in part to the acceleration of the ongoing digital transformation. Many more consumers and business organizations are completing tasks online instead of visiting physical locations to avoid the further spread of… Read More

December 21, 2021 @ 3:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Futuur, which provides a wide selection of prediction markets available at one URL, has officially launched its real-money markets to forecasters around the world.  Real-money markets have been added alongside Futuur’s already existing play-money markets, with trading available in seven cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH),… Read More

December 14, 2021 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deel has announced the addition of USDC and Solana as withdrawal currencies via Coinbase (COIN: Nasdaq). Deel first teamed up with Coinbase in November 2020 to “enable users to withdraw their paychecks in cryptocurrency,” according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. Deel currently supports five… Read More

November 28, 2021 @ 10:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

If you’re a blockchain developer or brand building your application on the Algorand blockchain, then you may be interested in knowing that Wyre’s integration with Algorand is now live. As mentioned in the announcement, this means that application developers on the Algorand blockchain are able… Read More

November 23, 2021 @ 9:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle, a digital asset firm that is a top stablecoin issuer and owner of investment platform SeedInvest, has invested $10.5 million in Crowdcube. The total funding round was $13.5 million. Circle’s investment in Crowdcube was made via USD Coin (USDC) – a dollar-based stablecoin. The percentage… Read More

November 18, 2021 @ 3:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitso, a top crypto platform in Latin America that reports over 3.3 million users, has launched “Bitso Shift,” a service that allows Mexican people and companies to send and receive payments between Mexico and the United States. According to Bitso, Bitso Shift is targeting Mexican… Read More

November 14, 2021 @ 7:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ShapeShift DAO, a decentralized, non-custodial crypto platform and community, reveals that it has formed a partnership with ICHI in order to launch a new stable token. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “Through the provision of a Decentralized Monetary Authority (DMA), ICHI empowers… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 10:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Smart contract platform RSK’s expansion throughout the Philippines will result in more access to stablecoins for investors living in the country. Given their peg to existing assets such as fiat currencies, precious metals and, on occasion, other cryptocurrencies, stablecoins are less vulnerable to the wild… Read More

November 3, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The OLB Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: OLB), a provider of Cloud-powered omnicommerce and payment acceptance solutions for small- and mid-sized merchants and Bitcoin mining firm, announced that it is ready to process Mastercard Bitcoin payments. Merchants utilizing OLB’s OmniSoft business management platform and the firm’s SecurePay… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle, a stablecoin issuer and aspiring banking platform, is now supported on the Hedera Hashgraph network, according to a note from the company. USDC is a dollar-based stablecoin with over $30 billion in circulation that is widely utilized for payments in the crypto ecosystem. Hedera… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Centre, the consortium that has been established by global Fintech Circle and digital assets firm Coinbase (COIN: Nasdaq) to offer standards and governance for USD Coin (USDC), which has become one of the  fastest-growing “digital dollar” currencies, reveals that recent MIT Digital Credentials Architect Kim… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 3:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fintech firm Circle, a company providing payments and financial infrastructure for internet businesses, has integrated with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. The integration simplifies the process of connecting bank accounts and accepting ACH payments because Plaid enables quicker account verification, the… Read More

September 20, 2021 @ 11:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Circle notes that at the beginning of July 2021, they had announced support for stablecoin USDC on the TRON blockchain, which is one of the largest open (or permissionless) blockchain networks. TRON aims to support a wide crypto ecosystem “popular within Asian… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini reveals that it now supports trading with Moss Carbon and Terra, in addition to new metaverse, infrastructure, and stablecoin tokens. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “Today, [the Gemini team is] delighted to announce support for a new set… Read More

September 8, 2021 @ 1:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets exchange EQONEX (Nasdaq: EQOS) reveals that it will be conducting its first  airdrop of EQO dollars (EQO-D) “exclusively for the holders of its native token EQO.” As mentioned in a release shared with CI: “Under the terms of the airdrop, 100 EQO-D will… Read More

August 20, 2021 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle is a Fintech that is best known for its dollar-based stablecoin, USDC, that has grown rapidly in recent months. Today, USDC is the second most popular stablecoin following Tether, with a market cap of over $27 billion. While about half the size of Tether… Read More