Circle plans to enter about 40 emerging markets with USDC at $73.3 billion, about a quarter of stablecoins, CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters. Tether holds nearly 60%, a 35-point lead, and the $400 million Tazapay deal for local payment networks is not expected to close until 2027, Crypto Briefing reported.
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The $400 million is Class A stock, priced on a 20-day average that will not be struck until a close expected in 2027. Neither company disclosed Tazapay's revenue, which leaves annualized volume as the only denominator on offer.
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Arc's mainnet went live Wednesday with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa and Mastercard among its founding validators, and the 10 billion ARC tokens Circle minted this week sit behind a presale that valued the network at $3 billion.
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Binance bought $100 million of Circle stock and signed to promote USDC through September 2031. Customer USDC balances on the exchange are up fivefold at $7.13 billion; the USDT balance is up $10.9 billion.
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Binance paid $100 million for 1,237,011 Circle shares and signed a five-year USDC agreement whose incentive fee is a percentage of balances held in Circle's wallet product. The filing does not disclose the percentage.
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Traders hold $79.27m of open interest in an Anthropic contract quoted at $2,147
Open interest in cash-settled Anthropic perpetuals has reached $79.27 million, with more than $20 million trading in a day, against a company that told the SEC in June it had not fixed a share count or a price.
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Circle's Arc mainnet makes USDC both the unit of account and the gas token
Arc's founding validator set has twelve members, drawn from card networks, clearing houses and asset managers. The company that issues the chain's fee asset is also the company that can freeze it.
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Aerodrome's AERO emissions buy half of Base's peak USDC transfer volume
Coin Metrics puts Aerodrome at about half of Base's peak USDC transfer volume, with a single WETH/USDC pool at 32%, and the report says vote-directed AERO rewards and bribes to voters hold that liquidity in place.
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The value was never published, so the only checkable numbers are Circle's: $73.3 billion of USDC in circulation, $14.8 trillion moved in a quarter, and one UK e-money permission a club's compliance file can read.
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NYDFS zeroes X Money's advertised 6% yield for New York users on October 1
X Payments holds money transmitter licenses in 41 states and Washington DC, and New York is not among them, which is why the rate that sold the product vanishes a month after the nationwide rollout.
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FASB would let stablecoins sit in cash equivalents, but the issuer has to earn it
The board left the definition of a cash equivalent alone and wrote tests instead. The one mandatory piece of the proposal lands on filers that hold no tokens at all.
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