Circle boss Jeremy Allaire maintains that “payment stablecoins” are payment systems, not securities. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is not the appropriate agency to regulate stablecoins, according to Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire. In an interview with Bloomberg on Feb. 24, the Circle chief executive aired his views on the SEC and its…
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Bitcoin proponents called it the start of another bull run, while a few other analysts believe it’s a bear trap. The Bitcoin (BTC) price rose to a new six-month high of $24,800 on February 16, registering a double-digit surge of 15%. The prolific single-day Bitcoin price surge took many by surprise, given February has been…
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Rumors swirled on Twitter that the stablecoin issuer received a litigation notice from the U.S. securities regulator, but a Circle executive rebuffed the claim. USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has denied rumors that it received a “Wells Notice” over its United States dollar-pegged stablecoin. On Feb. 14, a now-deleted tweet from Fox Business reporter Eleanor…
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Circle, the US-based payments company that issues the USD coin (USDC) stablecoin, alleged that major crypto exchange Binance did not fully back some of its own stablecoin proxies. Notably, on Monday, blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos was ordered to stop minting Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoins…. Read More: Binance’s Stablecoin Under Fire: Rival Circle Sounds the Alarm…
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The company’s complaint to the New York regulator reportedly came before the SEC’s lawsuit against Paxos over BUSD and NYDFS ordering the firm to “cease minting” the stablecoin. New York State’s Department of Financial Services, or NYDFS, reportedly received a complaint from stablecoin issuer Circle regarding Binance’s reserves prior to its crackdown on BUSD. According…
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Circle has released its reserve report for December 2022 highlighting over-collateralized asset holdings currently backing 44.5 billion USDC tokens in circulation. USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has released an accountant-verified report of its treasury reserve holdings backing more than $44.5 billion worth of tokens currently in circulation. Circle’s December 2022 reserve report, which was reviewed…
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A professor from Cornell University has warned about the potential effects a collapse of a major stablecoin could have on the U.S. bond market. Eswar Prasad said that if large stablecoins face a collapse, the number of Treasury bonds they would need to sell could disrupt the U.S. Treasuries market, affecting prices. Cornell Profesor Alerts…
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has reviewed what happened in 2022 in crypto, making several predictions about the future of the ecosystem. Dante Disparte, CSO of Circle, in an article published for the WEF, states that while 2022 has been a terrible year, the building blocks of the industry will continue to be “integral parts”…
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Turmoil in the crypto sector in 2022 will see the tech change hands to “more regulated and established institutions,” says Circle’s chief strategy officer. Circle’s chief strategy officer and head of global policy, Dante Disparte, believes that the turmoil in the crypto sector over the last year could mark the handover of crypto technology to…
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