Circle facilitates smooth USDC-USD transactions, offering a bridge between banks and DeFi.
As a result of advances in both crypto technologies and policy, Circle's new USDC API offers a bridge between crypto and conventional finance. Circle, the...
Adult website Pornhub adds XRP, BNB, USDC, and DOGE to its payment methods.
Pornhub, one of the leading adult online pornography content providers, has added XRP, BNB, USDC, and DOGE to its list of approved crypto payment solutions....
Visa Partners With Circle to Integrate USDC for Payments
Visa enters into a partnership with Circle to integrate its USDC stablecoin within its network of merchants. Visa, a global financial services company and credit...
USDC Facilitates The Distribution of Donations in Venezuela
Opposition leaders in Venezuela have joined forces to skirt Maduro’s controls and allow medical health workers in the country receive donations in crypto tokens, a...
US Government Plans to Use USDC Stablecoin to Offer Foreign Aid in Venezuela
Venezuela’s opposition leader, who exiled in Spain, has partnered with US-based cryptocurrency companies AirTM and Circle to facilitate the distribution of funds to healthcare workers...
US Government Enlists USDC for ‘Global Foreign Policy Objective’ in Venezuela: Circle CEO
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido was declared interim president by Venezuela's National Assembly in January 2019.(Carolina Cabral/Getty Images) Payments startup Circle is getting political. The...
Circle Gets $25M From DCG to Drive USDC Mainstream
Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Circle) USDC backer Circle is teaming with Genesis Trading in a $25 million deal aimed at pushing the stablecoin...
Circle Blacklists USDC Address Holding $100k in Response to a Law Enforcement Request
CENTRE, the issuer of USDC stablecoin has confirmed they have blacklisted a USDC address upon the request of authorities. The blacklist resulted in the freezing...
Circle Confirms Freezing $100K in USDC at Law Enforcement’s Request
The CENTRE Consortium blacklisted a USDC address in response to a law enforcement request, freezing $100,000 worth of the stablecoin, a spokesperson said Wednesday. CENTRE,...
USDC in circulation surpasses 1 billion mark
Network data has revealed that the current amount of stablecoin USDC in circulation has surpassed 1 billion in July. According to the data disclosed, the...
USDC is Coming to the Algorand Blockchain
Algorand Foundation has announced that it has established an alliance with Circle to enable fiat-backed stablecoin on its blockchain. Algorand is a non-profit organization that...
Circle’s USDC ends its monogamous relationship with Ethereum
USDC is breaking up with Ethereum—or, at the very least, it’s time to start seeing other blockchains. Centre, the collaboration between Coinbase and Circle that...
Crypto-friendly Bank Frick now processes payments via USDC stablecoin, says it is faster than SWIFT
Bank Frick, the Liechtenstein-based crypto-friendly bank, has added support for a stablecoin for the first time. The bank now allows its clients to trade and...
Research Revealed Drop in Trading Volume of USDC Despite Market Recovery
Even though the cryptocurrency exchange has seen growth, the Stablecoin market share of USDC has observed a steep drop. Researchers noted that in May, the...
British company, BCB Group, to help businesses invest in Bitcoin
British crypto company BCB Group has unveiled a new service dedicated to supporting companies who want to connect bitcoin and other digital assets to their...
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Wrapped Ethereum [WETH] sets greater worth than Bitcoin
Ethereum is becoming a de facto crypto settlement network because of value transfers via ETH, WETH, and stablecoins. Ethereum long trailed Bitcoin as the top...
Chainalysis Report attributes KuCoin hack of 2020 to ‘Lazarus Group’ by North Korea
The cybercrime group working on behalf of the North Korean government is now believed to have orchestrated the largest cryptocurrency hack in 2020, according to...
$11 million worth of DAI lost to v1 yDAI vault exploit at Yearn Finance
DeFi Protocol Year Finance experienced an exploit earlier today, resulting in a $11 million loss in one of its DAI vaults. Following the news of...
New survey: A third of British people keen in crypto & Bitcoin investment but lack market knowledge
A recent UK study finds that about a third of British individuals are focused on investing in cryptocurrencies, but most of them do not grasp...
“At $288”: How AAVE moved ahead by surging volume, flash loans demand and solid spike in DeFi tokens
Increasing value, demand for flash loans and a solid rally in DeFi tokens have driven AAVE's price to a new all-time high today. The Aave...
Why $1 billion every 24 hours in volume now the norm for Uniswap
Uniswap may soon be averaging $1 billion in regular trading value, with most transactions happening between Ethereum and stablecoins. Leading decentralized exchange, or DEX, Site...
After Receiving Boost from DeFi Darling Andre Cronje, Crypto Newcomer Erupts
After announcing further integration with the Yearn ecosystem, a decentralised money market project backed by yearn.finance (YFI) developer Andre Cronje is seeing some substantial price...
Bitcoin: Why you should be alert on 15th January
With Bitcoin rising up the valuation ladder in 2021, there has been aggressive demand for stablecoins since the first of January. In fact, the collective...
How the need for fast, scalable, Ethereum alternatives boosted Solana (SOL)trading volume
The DeFi sector is booming again and the need for fast, scalable Ethereum alternatives has taken Solana (SOL) trading volumes to record highs. 2021 got...
Exploit: Chainlink price feeds to shield against flash loan attacks at Warp Finance
Warp Finance was in the headlines last month when it took Twitter to expand on the "complex flash loan attack" it was a target of....
1inch Announces Airdrop and Lists on FTX
1inch Network went live on Dec. 25, the company announced on Twitter. In a series of tweets, 1inch explained the basics of its Instant Governance...
DeFi platform 1inch releases governance and utility token
The 1INCH tokens will govern both the platform's automated market maker protocol and its DEX aggregator. The team behind the DeFi platform 1inch is releasing...
Why FinCEN’s Proposed Crypto Wallet Rule Might Hit DeFi
A proposal by the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) that would require crypto exchanges to collect personal information, including names and home addresses, from...
Ethereum’s Bullish Trend May Not Stop It from Seeing a Strong Correction: Analyst
Bitcoin’s price is inching higher this morning following a bout of weakness seen yesterday Its present strength comes as the entire market moves higher, with...
Bitcoin Addresses Holding $1 Million Goes ‘Parabolic,’ 10% of BTC Supply Sits Idle for 10 Years
While bitcoin trades above the $20k handle, onchain data shows that the number of bitcoin addresses holding at least $1 million has climbed substantially increasing...
DeFi Game Aavegotchi Preps for Jan. 4 Mainnet Launch With NFT Auctions
A retro, Tamagotchi-inspired game that came to life at the end of DeFi Summer is launching in full on Jan. 4. Initially funded by an...
Euro stablecoin launched on Stellar by one of Europe’s oldest banks
The EURB is fully regulated and backed 100% by Euros, allowing banks and institutional investors to use the cryptocurrency without exposure to counterparty risk. Germany’s...
Coin Center Donations Top $100K Worth of Dai Following Anti-Stablecoin Bill Proposal
Anti-stablecoin legislation has been a boon for donations to Coin Center, a cryptocurrency think tank and policy advocacy group, with the organization receiving over $100,000...
What is MoonDeFi: The Decentralized Protocol for Automated Liquidity
Centralized exchanges have been the backbone of the crypto market for many years. They provide fast settlement times, high transaction volumes, and continuously improve liquidity....
Compound liquidator makes $4M as oracles post inflated Dai price
DAI reached a price of $1.3 on Uniswap and Coinbase, the two exchanges used by Compound's oracles. The crypto market suffered a powerful crash on...
Coinbase Ditches US Customer Tax Form That Set Off False Alarms at IRS
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to discontinue sending customers 1099-Ks, the U.S. tax form which led the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to mistakenly think traders...
DeFi Investing 101: What Is It? Where Do You Start? What Are the Risks?
Decentralized finance, commonly known as DeFi, has been the hottest talking point in the digital asset markets in 2020. Internet-based financial protocols are providing new...
USDT Towers Over 30 Stablecoins- Tether’s Market Cap Grew by 2 Million Percent in Just Four Years
During the last two years since the initial bear market after the 2017 bull run, stablecoins have been extremely popular. Today, statistics show that the...
Meteoric Rise: Ethereum’s Mesmerizing 285% YTD Returns Send ETH Soaring Above $500 For First Time Since 2018
Ethereum is in the midst of a parabolic rally. The second-largest cryptocurrency has breached the $500 hurdle for the first time since 2018 and is...
Crypto firms work with Venezuela’s government-in-exile to disburse funds to health care workers
Venezuela's opposition government-in-exile is working with crypto firms Circle and AirTM to distribute funds to health care workers in the South American nation, Circle said...
Matic Network has integrated Chainlink natively on its mainnet
Ethereum sidechain Matic Network has integrated Chainlink natively on its mainnet. Five price feeds have already been launched on the Matic mainnet: MATIC/USD, USDC/USD, ETH/USD,...
Uniswap May Re-Up Rewards as SushiSwap Angles to Catch Itinerant Yield Farmers
(National Gallery of Art, modified by CoinDesk) Uniswap community members are scrambling to update yield farming rewards for the automated market maker’s (AMM) native token...
Value DeFi was exploited for approximately $6 million by flash loan attack
Value DeFi was exploited for approximately $6 million Saturday, possibly due to a flash loan attack, Value DeFi’s loss came just two days after another...
Value DeFi protocol suffers $6 million flash loan exploit
After a boast about the protocol's resiliency, Value DeFi loses $6 million to flash loan exploit. Following a Twitter thread on Friday that highlighted the...
Tornado Cash’s privacy pool USD value surpasses $13M, hitting a new high
The USD value of Ethereum-based mixer Tornado Cash's privacy pool has logged an all-time high, peaking at over $13 million on November 11, according to...
Report: Blockchain Price Oracle Manipulation Produces Millions in Losses, Shows No Signs of Slowing
On November 9, a writer from the website samczsun.com published a report that shows a number of issues with price oracle manipulation stemming from a...
LiquidStake set to unlock liquidity for Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 stakers
The solution is centralized, but time is pressing. As the launch date of Ethereum 2.0 approaches, an important issue in the staking mechanism is starting...
Pteria: A New DAO Will Change the Gaming Industry
Pteria is a new DAO built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. This DAO was launched only about 10 days ago but it is already...
Kraken Daily Market Report for August 09 2020 Overview
Total trading volume at $193.3 million. Bitcoin and Ethereum prices reversed their minor gains from the day before. There was a mix of returns of...
DeFi has more than just yield farming to thank for the recent surge
DeFi ecosystem has come a long way over the past few months. From a Total Value Locked (TVL) figure of $539.8 million right after the...
Kraken Daily Market Report for August 08 2020 Overview
Total trading volume at $181.4 million. Bitcoin prices were within +0-2% for the day. Bitcoin was only 33% of the total crypto trading volume, LINK...
Kraken Daily Market Report for August 07 2020 Overview
Total trading volume at $335.2 million, continuing the trend of higher trading volume that started in the last week of July. Trading with Euros beat...
Financial Services Provider to Coinbase Teams With Circle to Offer EU Institutions Stablecoin Payments
Jeremy Allaire, Circle (CoinDesk archives) BCB Group – a firm that provides financial services for cryptocurrency firms in the U.K. and EU – has inked...
DeFi platform Opyn loses $371K after exploit
It has been revealed that 371,260 USDC was lost during the August 4 exploit of the DeFi protocol Opyn. According to the official announcement from...
ETH Lite: Reflexer Labs Raises $1.7M to Build a Somewhat-Stable Coin for DeFi
(Loic Leray/Unsplash) Call it a “gentlecoin,” perhaps? A new decentralized finance (DeFi) project aimed at softening volatility has closed a $1.68 million seed round led...
Kraken Daily Market Report for August 04 2020 Overview
Total trading volume at $260.4 million. Bitcoin and Ethereum prices were in a holding pattern and closed neutral. $122 thousand in trading volume of Augur...
Opyn Removes Liquidity From Uniswap After $370K Stolen in DeFi Exploit
Attackers exploited a Uniswap trading loophole to get away with more than $370K. Attackers have exploited a vulnerability in the Opyn ETH Put contract to...
Kraken Daily Market Report for August 03 2020 Overview
Total trading volume at $288.5 million, down from the $341 million weekly average as Bitcoin prices held steady between $11,000 and $11,500. Most coins had...
Margin Trading And Lending On The Crypto Market
In recent years, many of you who are interested in crypto, probably have noticed the continuous growth of the number of new exchange products that...
Kraken Daily Market Report for August 02 2020 Overview
Total trading volume at $564.8 million, which is about 4 times higher than the average Sunday volume (avg. taken over last four months). Yesterday's high...