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Finance

Tether and Circle Are ‘Printing Money’ but Competition Is Coming: Wormhole Co-Founder

Platforms like M^0 and Agora are addressing the issue by allowing stablecoin infrastructure to be built to route yield to applications or directly to end users.

Money on a printer (Clay Banks/Unsplash)

Finance

Circle Examines Ways to Reverse Transactions to Counter Fraud, Disputes: FT

Circle is "thinking through ... whether or not there's the possibility of reversibility of transactions," President Heath Tarbert said in an interview

Circle Internet President Heath Tarbert

Marchés

U.S. Stablecoin Battle Could Be Zero-Sum Game: JPMorgan

Without significant expansion, the new wave of stablecoin launches may simply redistribute market share rather than grow the pie, said the bank.

The chart shows combined market value of top two stablecoins, USDT and USDC. (TradingView/CoinDesk)

Marchés

Galaxy, Circle, Bitfarms Lead Crypto Stock Gains as Bitcoin Vehicles Metaplanet, Nakamoto Plunge

The sharp moves happened amid a relatively muted action in the broader crypto market, with bitcoin modestly up above $114,000.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Marchés

Circle's USDC Market Share 'On a Tear,' Says Wall Street Broker Bernstein

USDC supply has surged to $72.5 billion, 25% ahead of Bernstein’s 2025 estimates.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

Juridique

Stripe's Tempo Blockchain Is a 'Referendum on the Ghost of Libra,' Says Libra Co-Creator

Christian Catalini warns that corporate-led blockchains like Stripe’s Tempo and Circle’s Arc risk repeating the compromises that doomed Libra’s open vision.

U.S. dollar and other major banknotes

Technologies

Popular DEX Hyperliquid Moves Forward to Launch Proprietary Stablecoin

A proprietary stablecoin could reduce Hyperliquid's dependency on USDC and potentially capture a part of the revenues from reserve assets.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Fireblocks Dives Further Into Stablecoins With Intro of In-House Payments Network

The stablecoin network is designed to provide higher efficiency and lower risk than currently exists when providers use more fragmented and disperse systems.

Left to right: Fireblocks co-founders Pavel Berengoltz, Michael Shaulov and Idan Ofrat. (Fireblocks)

Finance

Finastra Taps Circle to Bring USDC Settlement to $5T Global Cross-Border Payments

Integrating USDC into Finastra’s payments hub aims to cut costs and speed up international transfers.

(Sandali Handagama/ CoinDesk)

Finance

South Korea’s Top Banks Said to Meet Tether, Circle on Stablecoin Partnerships: Report

In separate meetings, executives from Shinhan, Hana, KB Financial and Woori Bank will explore the role of dollar-pegged and won-pegged stablecoins in the country.

A view of Seoul, the capital of South Korea