Bitcoin custodian and licensed private bank Xapo announced partnering with the fintech firm Circle to integrate USDC payment rails. Xapo has become the first licensed bank in the world to add outrails to its existing USDC on-ramps. The new feature is expected to allow members to bypass costly and time-consuming SWIFT payments and instead deposit...Read More
Hackers have managed to infiltrate the Twitter account of a Circle executive to falsely state that the stablecoin issuer was conducting a USDC airdrop. The fake airdrop leads to a phishing website likely designed to steal users’ tokens. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire confirmed that the Twitter account belonging to Dante Disparte, the company’s chief strategy...Read More
The world of cryptocurrency is known for its volatility, with prices rising and falling on a regular basis. However, the recent collapse of the USDC stablecoin has caused investors to fear that the entire market could be on the verge of a catastrophic crash. Though several analysts assure a rebound for the crypto market soon,...Read More
TL;DR: Coinbase believes crypto will be part of the solution for creating an open financial system that is both more efficient and more equitable. We co-founded the Centre Consortium in 2018 to invest in the build of USDC, and since then it has become the second largest stablecoin by market capitalization. We firmly believe that...Read More
Over the past few weeks, the rise of Bitcoin in the charts has overshadowed other developments in the industry. Between 26th November to press time, Bitcoin has grown by 123%. The particular importance of that timeline will be narrated later on as we move on to the topic of stablecoins. According to Coinmetrics, stablecoins have...Read More
On the back of consistent price surges over the last week, it seemed that Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the rest of the market were finally registering some corrections on the charts. However, that wasn’t to last as the larger crypto-market hiked after the U.S Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued an interpretive...Read More
Despite a tumultuous 2020, stablecoins not only managed to stay ahead, but showed considerable growth and industry penetration. From a COVID-induced black swan event to an explosion in DeFi to Bitcoin’s stark price surge, 2020 has been a defining year. Stablecoins, in particular, saw major developments, both in terms of adoption and regulations. Major Stablecoin...Read More
With XRP’s price being dragged through the mud, Ripple is on high alert and preparing for the suit. This lawsuit by SEC has sent ripples across the industry [pun intended] and people are questioning what’s next? or more precisely ‘who’s’ next? Some say it could be Link, Bitcoin, or even Ethereum, but if we are...Read More
With Tether’s dropping reserves having an impact on Bitcoin’s price, Coinbase-backed stablecoin USDC’s steadily climbing reserves may do the same. According to USDC’s hourly mean inflow charts, the inflows have increased in steps on the exchange, based on data from CryptoQuant. This is directly linked to further price movement in Bitcoin as whales and institutions...Read More
Jeremy Allaire, CEO and founder of digital currency company Circle, took to Twitter to share that the circulating amount of the USDC stablecoin is now over 3.3 billion. According to the CEO: Just a week ago we shared that $USDC had crossed 3 billion in circulation. We’re now well over 3.3 billion across chains, 10%...Read More
Popular crypto-platform Circle is in the news after it announced the launch of a major platform upgrade. At the core of Circle’s latest platform upgrade will be a new digital currency native treasury account infrastructure – Digital Dollar Accounts. This upgrade will allow users to store value natively in digital currencies while maintaining compatibility with...Read More
Circle and CEO Jeremy Allaire have been in the news a lot lately. Not only has the U.S government enlisted Circle’s help for a ‘foreign policy objective’ in Venezuela, but Circle also recently launched Yield USDC accounts for businesses. On the back of such developments, Jeremy Allaire recently expanded on the Master Plan for USDC...Read More
Stablecoins are hotter than ever, with Tether’s trade volume surpassing Bitcoin’s by 55% in the past 24 hours. Led by surges in the USDC and USDT, the total number of stablecoin daily active addresses has topped 265K. Stablecoin Active Address || Source: Coinmetrics The above chart by Coinmetrics is smoothed using a 7-day rolling average....Read More
The Maker Foundation is being sued in a class-action lawsuit for $28 million over the March 12 event that caused over $2 million in liquidations. The lawsuit alleges that the team behind the Makerdao project did not explain the extreme risk of loss to investors. Also read: ETH Price Strains Defi Collateral Loans as ‘Black...Read More
During the crypto hype bubble and Bitcoin’s meteoric rise, speculation ran wild due to the incredible potential the emerging technology could bring to the world, if only the technology could find its “killer app” – something that makes the technology a must-have addition to daily life.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
2019 has been largely regarded as a year of the bulls after collective bullish sentiment drove major cryptocurrencies to a price hike. Besides the bull run, stablecoins were also a major topic of discussion as the community’s attention were grabbed by the Bitfinex-Tether fiasco and the launch of Facebook’s Libra. Other than the aforementioned virtual...Read More
Photo: Liquid / Instagram Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid, that conducted a sale of Telegram’s crypto tokens back in July, has revealed the wallet address where the sum will stay until releasing of the tokens. The wallet, as announced, carries $4,123,116.76 worth of the USDC stablecoin. As we previously reported, the strange story started out in...Read More
Samsung’s Blockchain Keystore which is available on the company’s range of Galaxy S10 phones as well as Note 10, has included support for Bitcoin as well as more than 30 other cryptos. The app also supports more than a few DApps as well. A few months ago in March, Samsung launched its new Galaxy S10...Read More
Crypto enthusiasts have noticed that the Ethereum blockchain has come awfully close to reaching capacity due to the added transactions stemming from the Tether (USDT) network. The transaction count since mid-August shows the ERC20 version of tether has surpassed the original version that uses BTC. ERC20 tether transactions cost users more than $260,000 in the...Read More
One of the main drawbacks associated with the cryptocurrency market is its highly volatile price activity. The volatility was and still is, considered a major hindrance when it comes to the mass adoption of virtual assets. The introduction of stablecoins was meant to tackle this associated crypto-volatility. However, not all stablecoins operate the same way...Read More
On August 15, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that it had acquired the cryptocurrency custody service Xapo’s institutional branch. The business move puts Coinbase in the limelight, making it the largest custodial service for digital assets worldwide, with more than $7 billion under custody. Also Read: Hong Kong Protest Leader Hopes to...Read More
