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X Explores Paying Creators in USDC as Stablecoin Market Reaches $310B
Crypto News X is in early talks to pay content creators in stablecoins such as Circle's USDC, according to a person familiar with the matter who also works with other social platforms testing stablecoin creator payouts. The discussions are preliminary and unconfirmed. They follow a broad
Aug 20, 2026
Lighter's LIT Staking Unlocks Up to $10 in USDC per Token for LLP Access
Lighter's LIT token is staked for LLP access, granting up to $10 in USDC per token, backed by a 1B fixed supply and burn mechanism.
Aug 20, 2026
AWS Launches USDC AI Agent Payments 3 Months After Coinbase-Stripe Preview
AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, enabling AI agents to pay for APIs and services in USDC using Coinbase and Stripe wallets.
Aug 19, 2026
Bank of Italy Sends 200 USDC in Study, Finds No Cost Advantage Over Remittances
Crypto News A new mystery shopping study from the Bank of Italy, Italy's central bank, has concluded that USD Coin (USDC), a prominent altcoin stablecoin, offers no systematic cost advantage over traditional remittance channels. The
Aug 19, 2026
Circle Says 90% of Hyperliquid's $5.5B USDC Held on Coinbase
Circle's Q2 call shows 90% of Hyperliquid's $5.5B USDC attributed to Coinbase, the Coinbase pact renewed unchanged and CCTP reaching OKX's X Layer.
Aug 8, 2026
Circle Extends USDC (USDC) Distribution Deal With Coinbase to 2029
Circle confirms its USDC distribution deal with Coinbase runs through 2029 as supply reaches $73.3 billion and new payment rails expand.
Aug 6, 2026
USDC Circulation Reaches $73.3B in Circle Q2
USDC circulation rose 19% to $73.3B as Circle Q2 revenue reached $701M, Arc launches Sept. 16 and CRCL shares faced mixed investor reaction.
Aug 5, 2026
JPYC Stablecoin Trial Set for 2 Lawson Stores
Crypto News JPYC, the yen-denominated stablecoin, will be used in a MetaMask-based payment trial at a Lawson convenience-store counter on Aug. 17, with payments infrastructure provider Netstars announcing on Aug. 3 that it will support the experiment. According to the company's disclosur
Aug 4, 2026
USDC Issuer Circle Wins NYDFS Trust Charter 11 Years After BitLicense
USDC News Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), has received approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services to operate as a limited-purpose trust company, a regulatory step that moves the stablecoin provider beyond issuan
Aug 3, 2026
USDC Remittance Costs Hit Nearly 9% in Bank of Italy Study
Crypto News USD Coin (USDC) did not deliver a systematic price advantage over conventional remittance rails in a Bank of Italy field test, once the full fiat-to-crypto-to-fiat route was measured. The central bank's Markets, Infrastructures and Payment Systems Paper No. 86 used mystery-sh
Aug 1, 2026
USDC Issuer Circle Secures NYDFS Trust Charter for $73.7B Stablecoin
USDC News Circle Internet Group, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), obtained a limited-purpose trust authorization from New York’s Department of Financial Services for Circle New York Trust on July 31, giving the USDC reserve framework direct st
Jul 31, 2026
USDC Issuer Circle Acquires Nearly 1,000 IBM Blockchain Patents
USDC News Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), acquired IBM’s blockchain patent estate on July 27, adding more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents to its intellectual-property portfolio. The company’s official announcement said the assets cover distributed-ledger t
Jul 27, 2026
Tether and USDC Confront SWIFT’s 17-Bank Tokenized-Deposit Ledger
Crypto News On July 9, 2026, SWIFT switched on a blockchain-based shared ledger with 17 of the world’s largest banks — including Citi, HSBC, UBS and BNP Paribas — and the decisive detail is what it excludes: no stablecoins, only tokenized deposits. Built on Hyperledger Besu, an EVM-compa
Jul 18, 2026
FATF Names Stablecoins the Top On-Chain Illicit-Activity Vector, Citing Tether
Crypto News The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its seventh progress report on virtual-asset supervision on July 16, revealing that 83% of the 109 jurisdictions surveyed — 91 in total — have now legislated the Travel Rule, the requirement that virtual-asset service providers
Jul 18, 2026
USDC in Focus as ECB Warns $300B Stablecoin Market Could Drain Bank Deposits
Crypto News European banks face a mounting threat from privately issued stablecoins, a senior European Central Bank official warned on July 17. Speaking to cooperative bank executives in Rome, ECB executive board memb
Jul 17, 2026
Visa Adopts Open USD as First Stablecoin on New VSP, Backed by 140+ Firms
Crypto News Visa unveiled the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) on July 16, a single environment that lets banks, fintechs and crypto firms mint, redeem, transfer and custody stablecoins through one interface. According to the company’s investor-relations disclosure, the platform folds stab
Jul 17, 2026
Visa Launches Stablecoin Platform Supporting Open USD Across $304B Market
Crypto News Visa has launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP), a single enterprise system that lets banks, fintechs and payment providers mint, hold and transfer stablecoins directly through its global payments net
Jul 16, 2026
Ethereum-Based Summer.fi Shuts Down After $6.04M USDC Vault Exploit
Crypto News Summer.fi, the Ethereum-based decentralized finance platform, will wind down operations after a $6.04 million exploit drained two of its USDC vaults, the company confirmed. The team said the July 6 attack on its Lazy Summer Protocol destroyed the capital needed to rebuild, le
Jul 16, 2026
Coinbase to End USDC Transfers on Noble Network From August 17
USDC News Coinbase will end USDC deposits and withdrawals routed through the Noble Network on August 17, according to the exchange's official announcement. The change targets a single transfer rail, not the asset: USDC itself remains fully t
Jul 16, 2026
SBI Launches JPYSC Yen Stablecoin Lending at 3% Annual Yield
Crypto News Japanese financial giant SBI is opening lending for its yen-pegged JPYSC stablecoin at a 3% annual yield, the first such product tied to the token. SBI VC Trade will begin accepting applications on July 16
Jul 14, 2026